Washington, D.C
A look at the ‘districts’ that would come with the new Commanders stadium at RFK site – WTOP News
If the $3.7 billion to bring the Washington Commanders back to the District gets the green light from the D.C. council, it will bring five new and distinct districts to the 180-acre RFK campus.
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WTOP outlines the plan for DC’s new Commanders stadium
If the $3.7 billion deal to bring the Washington Commanders back to the District gets the green light from the D.C. Council, it will bring five new and distinct districts to the 180-acre RFK Stadium campus.
The districts would become housing, restaurants, retail and more, according to City Administrator Kevin Donahue.
“I think people have to get out of their minds what they see now, which is hard to do because it’s been there for generations,” Donahue told WTOP.
Among the districts is the anchor itself, the stadium, which Donahue said would have the smallest footprint, only 15% of the site, and would have a roof that lines up with the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and U.S. Capitol. He said in addition to football games, they expect some or all of the stadium to be used 200 times a year.
“Think about football games, concerts, international soccer games, and then about 100 to 150 other uses — that’ll be think convention center uses — conventiongoers coming to the stadium, activating it for private events, for public events,” Donahue said.
To the south of the stadium would be the Riverfront District, which Donahue said would convert an abandoned parking lot into residential housing, retail and restaurants close to the protected area near where the Anacostia Trail runs. But it won’t be on the water.
Behind the stadium would be the Plaza District, which Donahue said would be similar to what exists along half the street outside Nationals Park, with restaurants and entertainment spots for people to hang out before and after games. This, Donahue said, would be different from the games many remember at the old RFK, when thousands of fans would only leave the stadium and head to their car or Metrorail.
“You have people mingling in over the course of two hours before a game starts, then afterward, particularly if it’s a Thursday, Friday, Saturday game, you have people mingling and staying afterward,” he said.
Closer to Benning Road, an abandoned parking lot would become the Kingman Park District, and Donahue said the city intends to provide long-term leases to developers who put apartment style housing along Oklahoma Avenue. Of the rental properties, 30% would need to be affordable housing.
“There’ll be many affordable opportunities for people to make it their homes and make it places that they live, that they raise their children, access the local schools. And for the folks who live adjacent to RFK right now, they’ll have neighbors, and their neighbor won’t be a big parking garage,” Donahue said.
However, this district would also include two parking garages. Donahue said those will be tucked closer toward the stadium.
Next to the Kingsman District at the site currently known as the Fields at RFK, Donahue said the soccer and baseball fields would stay but what would be called the “Recreation District” would also include a state-of-the-art sportsplex, which would provide parents and athletes with a location for events such as cheerleading, gymnastics and other indoor activities.
“Think of the sportsplex as being a recreation center, except it has the recreational activities that you really can’t get at our wonderful rec centers around the city,” he said.
Also, in the Recreation District, 30% of the land would remain green space, he said.
Finally, 30 acres of land that is home to the Anacostia River Trail will not be developed.
“That won’t be touched, it’ll be restored. There will be public access, so it will not be cut off by private development,” Donahue said, referring to the nearby waterways.
Handling car and foot traffic
Planning the layout of the stadium campus is a big task, according to Donahue, because there is a lot of space to work with.
“If you live in D.C., if you’re familiar with Catholic University campus, a big campus, it’s about as large as this campus is. If you think of the Glover Park neighborhood, an entire neighborhood with a school in it, it’s about the size of this campus,” Donahue said.
Donahue said the campus would look totally different, because it would be redesigned with fewer instances of people and car traffic coming together.
“It’ll be a pedestrian-friendly design,” he said.
People could soon be crossing main streets by going over or under them, and they plan to make the stadium more accessible to people walking or biking from areas farther down the river, including Navy Yard.
“We really want to not have this be an island of development and residential housing separate from both this adjacent community,” Donahue said.
Some on the D.C. Council have been critical of the absence of funding for Metro in the plan, but Donahue said to be ready for opening day, the Metro needs are in place.
“There is a Metro station that is around the corner that people used, millions of people used, over the course of the lifetime of RFK when it was activated,” Donahue said.
He said when it comes to other transit investments — among them the needs of people who will work, live and come to the area to indulge at the retail and restaurants — that needs to be studied down the road.
“We have these unanswered questions that we need to study properly, and then we will invest. This is no question,” Donahue said.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – Seventy-two veterans took a trip Saturday to our nation’s capital to visit memorials honoring their service in the armed forces.
This year marks the 12th trip to Washington, D.C. for Honor Flight Tallahassee.
Early Saturday morning, veterans and their guardians met to take a charter flight up to D.C.
Throughout the day, veterans were taken to the World War II memorial, as well as the Korean and Vietnam War memorials. The veterans also visited Arlington National Cemetery and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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4 things to know about the weather:
- Chances of rain in the morning
- Gusty Sunday
- Chilly Monday
- Temps will rise again through the work week
Download the NBC Washington app on iOS and Android to check the weather radar on the go.
After a nice and warm Saturday, changes arrive for part two of the weekend.
The first half of your Sunday will have a chance for showers. Winds will pick up with our next system and are expected to gust to about 20-30 mph. Cooler air will settle in, and lows Sunday night fall into the 40s.
Highs temps Monday will reach only into the mid to upper 50s.
However, temperatures will rise through the week, so you won’t need your jackets every day.
QuickCast
SUNDAY:
Showers, then partly cloudy
Wind: NW 10-15 mph
Gusts @ 30 mph
HIGH: Lower 60s
MONDAY:
Partly cloudy
Wind: NW 10-15 mph
Gusts @ 25 mph
HIGH: Upper 50s
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Washington, D.C
‘It’s a twilight zone’: Iran war casts deep shadows over IMF gathering in Washington
The most severe energy shock since the 1970s, the risk of a global recession and households everywhere stomaching a renewed surge in the cost of living – hitting the most vulnerable hardest.
In a sweltering hot Washington DC this week, the message at the International Monetary Fund meetings was chilling: things had been looking up for living standards around the world. But then came the Iran war.
“Some countries are in panic,” said the fund’s managing director, Kristalina Georgieva, addressing the finance ministers and central bank bosses in town for the IMF and World Bank spring meetings. “The sooner it [the Iran war] ends, the better for everybody.”
Such gatherings are not typically used to fight geopolitical battles. “You don’t get people shouting at one another at these things,” one senior figure remarked. But, as a record-breaking April heatwave swept the US capital, no one could ignore the mounting damage from the Iran war.
Those familiar with the mood over breakfast at a meeting of the G20’s representatives on Thursday, which included Donald Trump’s treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, and the outgoing US Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell – said the atmosphere in the room was sombre amid an open exchange of serious views.
“It is such a twilight-zone meeting,” said Mohamed El-Erian, a former IMF deputy managing director who is now chief economic adviser at the Allianz insurance group. “There are several shadows hanging over it: one is the shadow that comes from concern about the global economy as a whole.
“The second is that some countries are going to be particularly hard hit, and it’s mostly countries that very few people are talking about. But the third concern is the adding of insult to injury: the fact that the US, which started a war of choice, is going to be hit, but by a lot less than elsewhere in relative terms.”
Before Thursday’s breakfast, Rachel Reeves had started her day with an early-morning jog. Joined by her counterparts from Spain, Australia and New Zealand for a run down the iconic National Mall, she posted an Instagram selfie with a not-so-subtle dig: “Friends that run together – work together.”
A day earlier, the chancellor had told a CNBC conference that she thought “friends are allowed to disagree on things” as she criticised Trump’s Iran war as a “mistake” and a “folly” that had not made the world safer.
Speaking at a venue just steps away from the White House, before a one-on-one meeting with Bessent, she said this “fair message” was needed because UK families and businesses were feeling the pain from higher energy prices triggered by the conflict.
Those close to Reeves insist her meeting remained cordial. Britain and the US have significant shared interests in AI, financial services and trade. The chancellor also said the UK government had little time for the Iranian regime.
But with the IMF having warned on Tuesday that the Iran war could risk a global recession – in which Britain would be the biggest G7 casualty – it was clear Reeves had travelled to Washington ready to pick a fight.
“I’m struck by how vocal she has been and the words she used,” said one global financier. “We know the disagreement between Bessent and [European Central Bank president] Christine Lagarde earlier in the year. But that was in private.”
At a cocktail party held at the British ambassador’s residence for hundreds of diplomats and financiers – including the Bank of England’s governor, Andrew Bailey, the chief executive of Barclays, CS Venkatakrishnan, and dozens of senior figures – this transatlantic tension, weeks before King Charles’s US state visit, was a major topic of conversation.
The other, in the balmy residence gardens, was one of its former occupants, Peter Mandelson, as revelations about the former ambassador’s appointment threatened to further rock the UK government.
Before the war, the agenda for the IMF had been about global cooperation; the adoption of AI, jobs and work to eradicate poverty. Each of those tasks had now been complicated, but not least the task of countries working together.
For many at the meetings, the focus was on forging closer global cooperation without the world’s pre-eminent superpower.
“Everybody is talking about how you hedge against American decisions,” said David Miliband, the former UK foreign secretary, who now runs the International Rescue Committee. “You can’t do without them, because they’re 25% of the global economy. But, in a lot of fora, they’ve pulled out.
“So everyone has to think, how does one structure international cooperation? The old west is not coming back. And so everyone has to figure out how to position themselves for that world.”
For those gathering in Washington, there was irony in the fact that they were meeting in the halls of institutions founded, under US leadership, to promote global cooperation after the second world war. The whole idea of the Bretton Woods institutions was to avoid the dire economic conditions and warfare of the 1930s and 1940s. Yet this year’s meeting was taking place amid these intertwining problems.
In their conversations about the best economic policy response to the shock of conflict, the economists also knew the real power to make a difference lay two blocks across town from the IMF and the World Bank – behind the security cordons and construction equipment blocking the White House from public view. “It is not clear they can do anything about it,” said El-Erian.
Still, with a booming economy driven by AI – including Anthropic’s powerful Mythos model, the topic of much conversation – most countries cannot afford to completely break off US ties.
“People want to find ways to insulate themselves from the mess. But, on the other hand, they admire the US private sector,” El-Erian said. “The best way I’ve heard it put, is: they want to go long the private sector and short the mess. But it’s almost impossible to do.”
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