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Commanders leadership meets with Maryland legislators amid DC's ongoing push for stadium
Commanders leadership meets with Maryland senators amid DC’s push for stadium
FOX 5 has confirmed with a spokesperson for the Washington Commanders that principal owner Josh Harris and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell met with various legislators on Monday.
LANDOVER, Md. – FOX 5 has confirmed with a spokesperson for the Washington Commanders that principal owner Josh Harris and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell met with various legislators on Monday.
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen tells FOX 5 he and Sen. Ben Cardin, alongside Prince George’s County leaders, met with other members of ownership.
There’s been a flurry of activity at the end of this legislative session regarding House Resolution 4984, the bill that would give control of the RFK site to the District of Columbia and give the Commanders an option to build a new stadium at that site.
The bill is awaiting a vote in the Senate. All eyes are on Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to see if he’ll bring it to the floor for a vote.
Van Hollen tells FOX 5 Schumer has indicated he wants to make sure Van Hollen and Cardin are on board with the bill.
“I think Senator Schumer has been clear that he will respect the views and decisions of the Senators from the State of Maryland,” Van Hollen said.
Right now, the sticking point for Van Hollen: promises from the Commanders about the future of the Northwest Stadium site should the team leave.
“What we’ve said is we just want assurances that if the Commanders choose to RFK that they do right by the community there. We don’t want. Right now, if you look at RFK, it’s just been sitting there, vacant. We want a plan to develop the area for the good of the community at least as an insurance policy should they decide to move,” Van Hollen said.
There’s a race against the clock here as this legislative session winds down.
Van Hollen tells me he is expecting the Commanders to share a plan for the area with him soon enough for him and Cardin to sign off on the bill if whatever the Commanders propose meets their expectations.
“I want to see a plan for a vibrant community and it won’t be just my judgment it will also be the judgment of the state of Maryland and Prince George’s County representatives. Really, it’s up to the representatives from those areas to make that determination. But I think the Commanders will be putting forward a plan. I hope they will, I hope it’ll be detailed enough and it’ll be presented with enough guarantees that, we can be satisfied,” Van Hollen said.
The Commanders representative responded to a list of questions from FOX 5 by confirming the meetings with Josh Harris and Roger Goodell on the hill, but not commenting on the ongoing negotiations.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser declined to answer Fox 5’s questions about the bill.
Gov. Wes Moor, also declined to comment through a spokesperson tonight. Moore’s most recent public comments indicated he wanted to keep the team in Maryland.
There has also been reporting that the Maryland Senate delegation wanted the D.C. Air National Guard’s squadron to be transferred to Maryland as part of the RFK conversation.
Van Hollen says Maryland will be losing air assets as part of restructuring, and while he and Cardin are focused on bringing those assets back in some form, Van Hollen says that’s not directly connected to the RFK conversation.
Jaemi Theatre Company, a new AAPI-led theater company based in Washington, DC, officially launches this spring with its inaugural project, BAAL, a staged reading at the 2026 Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival on Friday, March 6, at 7:30 PM at the Atlas Performing Arts Center.
Founded by Artistic Director Youri Kim and Artistic Associate Juyoung Koh, Jaemi Theatre was born out of a recognition that DC, one of the largest theater markets in the United States, had no company dedicated to centering Asian stories or led by Asian artists. The name “Jaemi” comes from a Korean word meaning “fun,” and in its Sino-Korean form, 在美, means both “to live in America” and “to live in beauty.”
“I kept hearing from companies that it was hard to find Asian actors, and I heard it so often that I started to believe it myself,” said Youri Kim. “But through building community with other AAPI theater artists in the area, I realized the talent was always here. What was missing was the infrastructure to connect us. Jaemi is that infrastructure.”
BAAL, an original work written by Youri Kim (not to be confused with Bertolt Brecht’s 1918 play of the same name), is a body horror drama set in a dystopian city where the air is toxic and birth is outlawed. In the city of Baal, citizens are forced into an impossible choice: terminate or sacrifice a family member. The play uses the language of biological mutation and bodily control to examine how systems of power decide who gets to exist and on what terms, questions that resonate deeply within AAPI and immigrant communities navigating structures that seek to define, contain, and assimilate them. The staged reading features a cast of seven and an original sound design.
BAAL plays as a staged reading Friday, March 6, 2026, at 7:30 PM in Lab Theatre II at the Atlas Performing Arts Center (1333 H St NE, Washington, DC). Tickets ($29.75) are available online.
Looking ahead, Jaemi Theatre plans to host a founding party and fundraiser this fall, and will launch an Asian Writer Play Submission program in the second half of 2026. The program will pair playwrights from selected Asian countries with Asian playwrights based in DC for a workshop development process, building a pipeline that connects diasporic voices across borders.
For more information, visit yourikimdirector.com or follow @jaemitheatre on Instagram.
About Jaemi Theatre Company
Jaemi Theatre is a newly formed AAPI-led performance initiative based in Washington, DC, co-founded by Artistic Director Youri Kim and Artistic Associate Juyoung Koh. “Jaemi” is Korean for “fun” and, in its Sino-Korean form, means “to live in America” and “to live in beauty.” The company creates interdisciplinary performance rooted in diasporic imagination and radical storytelling. Jaemi is a home for the unfinished and the unassimilated, where performance holds contradiction without needing to resolve it.
Sunday, March 1, 2026 6:36AM
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — The San Francisco Ballet board has voted to cancel its upcoming performances at the Kennedy Center.
The company is scheduled for a four-day run in Washington D.C. in May.
Petition urges SF Ballet to cancel Kennedy Center tour stop as company opens 2026 season
Last year, Pres. Donald Trump overhauled the Kennedy Center’s board, including naming himself the chairman.
That led several artists to cancel scheduled performances.
A statement from SF Ballet says the group “looks forward to performing for Washington, D.C. audiences in the future.”
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