NFL Commanders building $3bn new stadium in Ward 7 on the old RFK site

[Anonymous]

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Nope. DC is putting up $500 million towards prepping the land for the stadium. Bowser initially claimed that this was all for “horizontal” work but it seems to actually include foundations and a lot of other stuff that is integral to the stadium construction.

The Commanders will also pay no property tax (as DC owns the stadium and will lease it to them for $1 a year), no sales taxes on the parking, and sales taxes generated by the stadium and associated development will go straight back to the stadium in the form of a maintenance fund.

The city plans to pay for its investments through extending the Ballpark Levy that paid for Nationals Park. This is a tax that is applied on any company that earns more than $5 million in revenue. Not a great idea when the city needs to be attracting private business to the city to offset the loss of federal jobs.

I would say that Josh Harris rang rings around Muriel Bowser in this negotiation, but it’s not even clear that her interests are at all aligned with those of the city. If she seals this deal for the Commanders, I’m sure the NFL will have a very nice gig waiting for her in November 2028.

Of course her interests are not aligned with the city. Why would they? She staked her career on getting the team to play in DC again. Kind of hard to get the best deal possible for your voters and taxpayers when all you care about is being able to tell low information voters you brought the team back to DC.

And local pols always get circles run around them in stadium deals. The team has highly paid and highly educated businesspeople while the District has a smart CFO but a low information mayor. But this is where the Council is supposed to come in and fight for the best deal possible because Muriel gave Harris everything he wanted and gave DC taxpayers a shit sandwich.

[Anonymous]

I don’t care what anyone says! This mayor is kicking ass and I’d vote for her over and over. I love it for this city! I hope we get it. Gentrification be damned! We deserve nice things - not trash. I’m ready, ward 5 resident.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care what anyone says! This mayor is kicking ass and I’d vote for her over and over. I love it for this city! I hope we get it. Gentrification be damned! We deserve nice things - not trash. I’m ready, ward 5 resident.

She is kicking ass. Specifically the ass of DC’s finances right back to the Control Board era. Is that the kind of nice things you are hankering after? You may think you deserve nice things, but buying things you can’t afford has nasty consequences.

[Anonymous]

It’s charming to see self-described “native Washingtonians” wanting to bring back “Old DC”. I’ve only been here for a couple of decades, but my understanding is that things with the city weren’t really that great when football games were played at RFK.

[Anonymous]

I am not a fan of bowser, but the NFL was always going to build a new stadium here. Get over it. It is what the city wants.

I live in the city and it's what I want. It's what all of my neighbors want. If you bought a house by RFK, get over it. You should have known.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not a fan of bowser, but the NFL was always going to build a new stadium here. Get over it. It is what the city wants.

I live in the city and it's what I want. It's what all of my neighbors want. If you bought a house by RFK, get over it. You should have known.

I live in the city, but not near RFK. Not sure those of us who don't live in the neighborhood should be telling the people who do live there to just get over it.

[Anonymous]

I live in DC and I want it too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not a fan of bowser, but the NFL was always going to build a new stadium here. Get over it. It is what the city wants.

I live in the city and it's what I want. It's what all of my neighbors want. If you bought a house by RFK, get over it. You should have known.

I want a house in Laguna Beach. Can someone give that to me?

If you cared to actually do a half second of research rather than just projecting you own biases across the city population, you would realize that you are wrong.

Polls have shown that only a minority of city residents want public money to go to the stadium.

And no current or future DC taxpayer who has any semblance of common sense should want anything to do with this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a fan of bowser, but the NFL was always going to build a new stadium here. Get over it. It is what the city wants.

I live in the city and it's what I want. It's what all of my neighbors want. If you bought a house by RFK, get over it. You should have known.

I live in the city, but not near RFK. Not sure those of us who don't live in the neighborhood should be telling the people who do live there to just get over it.

If you are paying for it, you might want to have some input.

[Anonymous]

They should make this conditional on extending the trolley down Benning. That and making it not suck.

[Anonymous]

Now switch back to redskins

[Anonymous]

Here’s how it will play out - Council will delay and delay the vote and/or not accept this ridiculous offer, Congress/Trump will step in, we end up with the stupid stadium and lose home rule.

Thanks Muriel!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now switch back to redskins

gross

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a fan of bowser, but the NFL was always going to build a new stadium here. Get over it. It is what the city wants.

I live in the city and it's what I want. It's what all of my neighbors want. If you bought a house by RFK, get over it. You should have known.

I live in the city, but not near RFK. Not sure those of us who don't live in the neighborhood should be telling the people who do live there to just get over it.

If you are paying for it, you might want to have some input.

Yes, my input has already been ignored, I don’t want the stadium and don’t want to pay for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a fan of bowser, but the NFL was always going to build a new stadium here. Get over it. It is what the city wants.

I live in the city and it's what I want. It's what all of my neighbors want. If you bought a house by RFK, get over it. You should have known.

I live in the city, but not near RFK. Not sure those of us who don't live in the neighborhood should be telling the people who do live there to just get over it.

If you are paying for it, you might want to have some input.

Yes, my input has already been ignored, I don’t want the stadium and don’t want to pay for it.

But the stadium will pay for itself! Unlike every other stadium in existence. At least the Potomac Yard debacle had a chance to make a profit with the associated entertainment district and gambling. None of that appears to be proposed here. You are getting a subsidized stadium with adjacent subsidized housing.