WT - LOVERRO: Commanders’ dance for new stadium at RFK site takes its first steps
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 4:51 am
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Now the dance has begun. Sometimes it’s a jitterbug. Sometimes it’s a mosh pit.
It is rarely a waltz.
The news broke Wednesday that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the owners of the Washington Commanders are close to a deal worth more than $3 billion to build a new stadium at the RFK Stadium site.
This is a dance that plays out in cities around the country, often with multiple partners — greedy sports owners, ambitious and corrupt politicians, gleeful fans and outraged citizens.
Call it the Stadium Stomp — a taxpayer-funded celebration of sports that not everyone cheers for.
There are 700,000 people living in the District. This may be hard to believe, but most of them are not football fans and would rather see their money go somewhere other than the pockets of the Commanders’ owners. But cities are often defined by their professional sports franchises.
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Now the dance has begun. Sometimes it’s a jitterbug. Sometimes it’s a mosh pit.
It is rarely a waltz.
The news broke Wednesday that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the owners of the Washington Commanders are close to a deal worth more than $3 billion to build a new stadium at the RFK Stadium site.
This is a dance that plays out in cities around the country, often with multiple partners — greedy sports owners, ambitious and corrupt politicians, gleeful fans and outraged citizens.
Call it the Stadium Stomp — a taxpayer-funded celebration of sports that not everyone cheers for.
There are 700,000 people living in the District. This may be hard to believe, but most of them are not football fans and would rather see their money go somewhere other than the pockets of the Commanders’ owners. But cities are often defined by their professional sports franchises.
Click on the link for more