Commanders’ path back to D.C. is cleared after City Council approves $3.8 billion stadium deal

The New York Times ^ | Aug. 1, 2025 | David Aldridge

[MinorityRepublican]

The Washington Commanders received a significant boost on Friday toward their dream of returning to the District of Columbia in a new stadium.

The D.C. City Council gave initial approval, in a 9-3 vote, to a revised deal for a 65,000-seat stadium, the centerpiece of a $3.8 billion, multi-use development project on and around the old RFK Stadium site on East Capitol Street. The public-private deal is one of the largest in the city’s history.

The team will spend $2.7 billion to build the stadium, with the city committing $1.1 billion in public funding toward the project. The investment will bring retail, restaurants and hotels to a new entertainment district adjacent to the stadium, located approximately two miles east of the U.S. Capitol building. The project also calls for the construction of 6,000 housing units at and near the stadium site by 2040, 30 percent of which are to be set aside for lower-income residents.

A second and final vote on the proposal is scheduled for Sept. 17, after the Council returns from summer recess. That will only require a majority, or seven votes, of the 13-member Council. (Ward 8 Councilman-elect Trayon White, who won a special election earlier this year, has not yet been sworn in to his position.)

“The era of a crumbling sea of asphalt on the banks of the Anacostia is finally coming to an end,” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, the primary force behind the city’s push to bring the team back to the site where it played from 1961 through 1996, said in a statement after the vote.

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: redskins

[butlerweave]

INCREASE TAXES !!!!!! LOL

[Fiji Hill]

I always root for the Washington Football Team to lose, even if they play Gaza or Pyongyang.

[Hatteras]

"The project also calls for the construction of 6,000 housing units at and near the stadium site by 2040, 30 percent of which are to be set aside for lower-income residents."

[shanover]

The deal didn’t even include going back to the Redskins. Poor people blue states sure can scrounge up billions when they want it.

[alternatives?]

The only way they will get me to go to DC is in chains.

Corrupt courts and government.

[Tommy Revolts]

...30 percent of which are to be set aside for lower-income residents.

What will the consequences of that be down the road?

[Hyman Roth]

All about liberals feeling good about themselves

[ducttape45]

You mean the Redskins? 😆

[gunnut]

The project also calls for the construction of 6,000 housing units at and near the stadium site by 2040, 30 percent of which are to be set aside for lower-income residents.

What could possibly go wrong? They can be called the Projects at Anacostia.

[SuperLuminal]

Moving from one crime-ridden neighborhood back to another one...

[tumblindice]

Low income housing within walking distance of the

The Washington Ballers?

[ChildOfThe60s]

My father and his brother grew up in Anacosta 90 years ago.

It was pretty crappy then. That’s why they worked hard, graduated high school, went to war, finished college on the GI Bill, and raised middle class families.....somewhere else.

[ChildOfThe60s]

If pro sports teams are profitable enough to pay players hundreds of millions of dollars, the teams can build their own damn stadiums.

It is disgusting

[Bernard]

...30 percent of which are to be set aside for lower-income residents.

What will the consequences of that be down the road?

They will be nostalgic for the days when the biggest problem was the name Redskins. I wonder if Waffle House will get the concession contract and raise prices accordingly to NFL stadium levels.

[cgbg]

By 2050 the entire complex will be a slum.