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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's DC's justification for this stadium? [/quote]

That it will make tons of money for the city. [/quote]

It definitely will not, stadiums almost never make money for cities. [/quote]

Then how city councils and administrators make the business case for it?[/quote]

The business case is all of the development that will happen as a part of the stadium. Also, the NFL wants the stadium in DC. That's why the bill got passed as a standalone.

If you moved around RFK then you should have assumed that a stadium was going to be there. [/quote]

Just like all the development that happened around FedEx?

Please.

Study after study shows that large stadiums are an absolute boondoggle. And DC has no money to pay for one anyway.

The odds of the stadium being built in the next 5 years are not great.[/quote]

The MD stadium is in the middle of nowhere. The odds are great b/c the NFL wants it in DC. [/quote]

The NFL is valued at $190 billion. If they want a team in DC, they can afford to pay fair market value for the land and pay for all of the infrastructure upgrades that will be necessary to accommodate the influx of fans and stadium employees.  But that's not how this ever happens.[/quote]

No one is paying for the land. It was transferred. The bill allows DC to put additional things on the land including housing and retail. They couldn't do that before. [/quote]

Where did the money come from to tear down the existing stadium?[/quote]

The stadium is crumbling. The city has been planning to demolish it for a while so that is nothing new. For liability reasons alone, the city had to deal with it.[/quote]

That still doesn't explain where the money came from in cash-strapped DC. [/quote]

I would think this money has been budgeted for awhile. The stadium was originally set and ready to go to be demolished in 2020 but the pandemic delayed what work had already been booked 5 years ago. Are you upset that they are going to do something with this site? I used to live near it, don't anymore, but I am so happy that the sad, litter ridden, concrete wasteland will finally be dealt with.[/quote]

DP to add, repeatedly, posts ignore the reality of the site - I will be interested in seeing what they develop for a football stadium concept. Much of the site is a floodzone with the Anacostia river there), and a portion of the site must be dedicated to green space so they cannot build up the entire thing. The entire site, big as it is, cannot be a typical football stadium. I think they are really going to need to beef up public transportation as it cannot be a big parking lot, but people need to get there somehow.   But also it needs to tie into the Kingman Island nature area that is right there, Anacostia river trail and park across the water.[/quote]

That flood zone would make an ideal parking lot. You already know what that's going to happen. [/quote]

I believe the bill would probit that in that particular area. Only something over half the site can actually be developed, per the bill.

https://ggwash.org/view/98029/the-size-of-the-rfk-site-will-force-the-district-to-pick-and-choose-what-goes-there

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DP to add, technically the federal government will still own the land, right? So I think that people cannot live on that land full time, cannot be apartment buildings. Maybe retail? [/quote]

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