Washington Commanders new stadium

[ProcessTruster]

Well....

 

I moved here from WNY in the 80's, been in both stadiums.   Lots of history and politics wrapped around all of this stadium stuff and what resulted in Fedex field being in the middle of nowhere.   Won't bore with that.   

 

RFK is/was a baseball-only stadium barely retrofitted each year for football.   All kinds of nostalgia here amongst the locals, but the place was largely a dump ( doing the jumping up and down on the end zone temporary gen admission bleachers was a slice, though).  

 

Fedex field has about 30k good seats and the rest are in outer space, so good riddance to it.   Impossible to get into and out of, just bad.

 

The RFK site is about as good as it will get; solid mass transit access, equally accessible from DC, Md and Va , etc.   Most of DC is gentrifying pretty rapidly and the RFK neighborhood will  not be an exception.   

 

DC government is about as incompetent as it gets, so I'll believe it when it gets built.   But the site is a good one for many reasons.   We shall see.  

 

 

 

 

 

[DaVinci]

Field looks a mile away from upper deck. Players will look like  🐜 ants

[Bferra13]

Man, no character in these new stadiums at all. Including ours. Nice, but sterile and unremarkable after the 5th clone being built and the wow factor rubbed off the first couple.

[UConn James]

Seeing the historical photos, the wavy roof on the old RFK Stadium looks remarkably similar to Highmark 2.0’s. 
 

Also in the presser, it’s so heartening to see the mayor’s full name having the biggest type on the entire sign they were sitting in front of. 🙄. How crass can you get for something that’s going to cost the taxpayer share of $1B (it said 25% public funding) and she’s trying to make political hay from it so she has a job for life.

[ProcessTruster]

5 minutes ago, UConn James said:

Seeing the historical photos, the wavy roof on the old RFK Stadium looks remarkably similar to Highmark 2.0’s. 
 

Also in the presser, it’s so heartening to see the mayor’s full name having the biggest type on the entire sign they were sitting in front of. 🙄. How crass can you get for something that’s going to cost the taxpayer share of $1B (it said 25% public funding) and she’s trying to make political hay from it so she has a job for life.

yeah the wavy roof was bc is was built for baseball for the Washington Senators.   Kind of like the old Rockpile in BLo.    

 

re: the DC mayor,  she will become irrelevant and the feds will hopefully (finally) take over the governance of DC and fix it.  

[UConn James]

2 hours ago, T master said:

Does any one know the actual reason they left that stadium some places look better than some of the places in the Bills stadium today .

 

It just amazes me that the power is on and the facility is basically running but is in no way being utilized . I could go in another direction but I'll just leave it at that .

 

Then the stadium that they play in now Fed Ex Field will be sitting empty like this one is and it isn't even 30 years old yet It was opened in 1997 . 

 

Yeah, it’s amazing and 😡 how they pretty much intentionally design these things to only last 25-30 years now.

 

Highmark 2.0 had better be for a longer haul than that bc I don’t think the tax-base is going to support another one for probably 50-60 years. And that being said, it’s not. Concrete fails sooner than that when exposed to brutal WNY elements. Some of the 2013 reno’s concrete was falling apart in 10 years — you can look in that Buffalo Snooze photo story from just before the talks started. An enclosed clear canopy system like several teams have and this rendering is showing apparently made too much sense for TPegs to handle.

[Wacka]

Well, the Rockpile was around for 40 years and the current one for 52, so HighmarkII probably be around for that time or longer. Most of us won't be here when a new one needs to be built

[That's No Moon]

11 hours ago, ProcessTruster said:

yeah the wavy roof was bc is was built for baseball for the Washington Senators.   Kind of like the old Rockpile in BLo.    

 

re: the DC mayor,  she will become irrelevant and the feds will hopefully (finally) take over the governance of DC and fix it.  

Edited 6 hours ago by That's No Moon

[Redblood]

On 4/28/2025 at 3:04 PM, boater said:

Oof. Rough neighborhood. Game day traffic is going to be epic.

 

I get vertigo just thinking about being on those upper decks.

Yeah really. Thats an awful area