RFK offers a unique opportunity to build a neighborhood that meets the community’s needs – but not if an NFL football stadium is built there. 

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“This [ RFK] is a tremendous opportunity. Please don’t blow it on a Billionaire’s playground.”

Today, RFK is home to highly used recreational fields, a farmers’ market, a popular skate park, and a playground. Mayor Bowser, in her campaign to get an NFL stadium, has not committed to keeping any of these. Neighbors don’t want a hulking facility in their backyard, which will turn residential streets into dangerously busy thoroughfares, and bring noise, trash, and parking headaches.

At a time when half of Black DC households say they struggle to afford food, evictions are at a 10-year high, and Metro needs hundreds of millions, we should not turn over RFK to a billionaire. DC just gave Ted Leonsis $515 million for Capital One Arena.  

How much money will the NFL demand from DC to subsidize a stadium?

Not surprisingly, polling shows residents overwhelmingly want housing and other neighborhood-focused amenities – not an NFL stadium.

Tell the Mayor and DC Council:  
RFK should be developed for the community, not a billionaire’s playground!

DC residents overwhelmingly want RFK to be developed for the community – with housing, recreation, local retail, and green space – yet Mayor Bowser is meeting with NFL billionaires behind closed doors to give them whatever they want, while the community and even the DC Council are shut out.

There is no way for the community to win unless they have a seat at the table! It is time to choose DC residents over a billionaire’s dream.

We Oppose an NFL Stadium at RFK because:

An NFL stadium will take public funds that could be used to improve schools, public transportation, housing and more.

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An NFL stadium will bring noise, heavy traffic, and trash to the neighborhood.

An NFL stadium will put current popular uses of RFK at risk, and squeeze out opportunities to create mixed-income housing. recreational opportunities, and neighborhood-serving retail.

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An NFL stadium is the wrong kind of economic development. Repeated studies show stadiums do not raise incomes or create good jobs. Instead of a stadium used a few times a year, we need a neighborhood used all year long.

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“This [the RFK site] is a tremendous opportunity. Please don’t blow it on a Billionaire’s playground.”

-RFK neighbor, in an anonymous survey