The hulking vestige of what once was the city’s Temple of Football has evolved into a blank slate for Washingtonians to project their hopes and fears for the property’s future.
, has been careful not to hint at where he might want to build a new stadium, and both Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkinhave all but rolled out a burgundy and gold carpet hoping to lure the team.
In the neighborhoods around RFK, those who favor football’s return say they see the addition of the Commanders on the banks of the Anacostia River as a way to enliven an area where the major landmarks now include a single restaurant and the D.C. jail. Proponents of a new stadium predict it would draw the kind of shops, bars and restaurants that have opened near the Nationals ballpark at Navy Yard and at the Wharf.
team departed 27 years ago. The average family income in the 20003 Zip code, which includes Kingman Park, increased from $114,000 in 1990 to $201,000 in 2018, census data shows. The area’s Black population declined from 58 percent to 28 percent over the same period, while the White population increased from 39Lisa White, 51, president of the Friends of Kingman Park Civic Association, bought her house after the team left.
Those years, she said, make her pessimistic about what would happen if the Commanders move in. “They’re going to interfere with our way of life,” she said.
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