RFK Stadium isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
D.C. officials say they’ve been forced to push back plans to demolish the 59-year-old facility as one of many cost-cutting measures in response to the coronavirus pandemic. They don’t expect to start demolition work until fiscal year 2022, at the earliest.
Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration announced with some fanfare in September 2019 that it planned to complete the demolition of the stadium by fall 2021, a crucial step in teeing up conversations about the property’s future as a home for new mixed-use development, a new football stadium or perhaps both. Plus, the move was expected to save the city about $3.5 million annually in maintenance and utility expenses.
But instead, the work is among a variety of large capital projects to be delayed as officials scrubbed the budget for savings, according to John Falcicchio, Bowser’s chief of staff and the deputy mayor for planning and economic development.
