<div dir="auto">Who says there has to be taxpayer funding? What if it was entirely privately funded, like Sofi Stadium, the newest NFL stadium? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">No one wants acres of surface lots. (Lack of imagination and creative thinking is a hallmark of some sclerotic politicians.) That’s where development should go. The two parking structures built at Nats Park were hardly used at first, and seem to be barely used now. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Plus stadiums now are used year-round as major venues for concerts and other entertainment. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 11:04 AM Gardner, Jessica <<a href="mailto:jgardner@washingtonanalysis.com">jgardner@washingtonanalysis.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(68,84,106)">For me personally, I don’t want the district to agree to pay for a stadium that won’t really do anything for our neighborhood. Aside from the fact that it just makes me mad that the billionaire owners don’t
pay for stadiums themselves much these days, unlike ballparks and arenas, neighborhoods don’t grow and new businesses don’t come in and generate tax revenue around football stadiums…. probably because there are only a handful of home games a year.
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lincolnparkdc] FYI -- Future of RFK -- H.R. 4984 - Congressional Markup on NOW<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What’s wrong with a stadium? When I first moved to DC there were football games there, as there had been for four decades, without much fuss. When the Nats came to town, everyone in the neighborhood walked to games there without any complaints.
There’s plenty of room for housing, development, mixed use, etc. <u></u><u></u></p>
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announced by Chairman James Comer (R-KY). The bill would 'transfer the administrative jurisdiction' of RFK from the Secretary of the Interior to the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA), allowing the city to revitalize the site. The bill
would extend D.C.'s lease with the federal government for 99 years and would allow the city to pursue mixed-use development on the RFK site, which could include commercial properties, housing projects, or even a stadium.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue,serif;color:rgb(79,101,123)">A BILL To amend the District of Columbia Stadium Act of 1957 to provide for the transfer of administrative jurisdiction over the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium
Campus to the Administrator of General Services and the leasing of the Campus to the District of Columbia for purposes which include commercial and residential development, and for other purposes.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:rgb(79,101,123)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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Donalds (R), </span></a><a href="https://www.billtrack50.com/legislatordetail/27958" target="_blank" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,serif"><span style="text-decoration:none;font-family:HelveticaNeue,serif;color:rgb(83,120,151)">Charles Edwards (R), </span></a><a href="https://www.billtrack50.com/legislatordetail/18214" target="_blank" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,serif"><span style="text-decoration:none;font-family:HelveticaNeue,serif;color:rgb(83,120,151)">Pat
Fallon (R), </span></a><a href="https://www.billtrack50.com/legislatordetail/15843" target="_blank" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,serif"><span style="text-decoration:none;font-family:HelveticaNeue,serif;color:rgb(83,120,151)">Virginia Foxx (R), </span></a><a href="https://www.billtrack50.com/legislatordetail/27895" target="_blank" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,serif"><span style="text-decoration:none;font-family:HelveticaNeue,serif;color:rgb(83,120,151)">Nicholas
Langworthy (R),</span></a><a href="https://www.billtrack50.com/legislatordetail/18457" target="_blank" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,serif"><span style="text-decoration:none;font-family:HelveticaNeue,serif;color:rgb(83,120,151)">Jacob LaTurner (R), </span></a><a href="https://www.billtrack50.com/legislatordetail/22654" target="_blank" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,serif"><span style="text-decoration:none;font-family:HelveticaNeue,serif;color:rgb(83,120,151)">Nancy
Mace (R), </span></a><a href="https://www.billtrack50.com/legislatordetail/27922" target="_blank" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,serif"><span style="text-decoration:none;font-family:HelveticaNeue,serif;color:rgb(83,120,151)">Jared Moskowitz (D), </span></a><a href="https://www.billtrack50.com/legislatordetail/19241" target="_blank" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,serif"><span style="text-decoration:none;font-family:HelveticaNeue,serif;color:rgb(83,120,151)">Eleanor
Norton (D), </span></a><a href="https://www.billtrack50.com/legislatordetail/23938" target="_blank" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,serif"><span style="text-decoration:none;font-family:HelveticaNeue,serif;color:rgb(83,120,151)">Katie Porter (D),</span></a><a href="https://www.billtrack50.com/legislatordetail/21350" target="_blank" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,serif"><span style="text-decoration:none;font-family:HelveticaNeue,serif;color:rgb(83,120,151)">William
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