The Washington Freedom, the D.C. region’s professional cricket team currently playing its home matches out of state, is eyeing the RFK Stadium campus in Northeast D.C. as the site for a new stadium.
A prominent D.C. lobbyist hired by the team’s owner, local tech executive Sanjay Govil, has met with city officials multiple times since July to lay out the team’s vision for a temporary, 4,000-seat stadium at the RFK site that could eventually be replaced by a permanent structure, The Washington Post reported Saturday.
The 190-acre campus is owned by the federal government, but the city has been looking to take over the site and redevelop it, potentially as a new home for the Washington Commanders. The House has already approved legislation that would transfer ownership to the city and a Senate committee signed off on a bill last month, though it’s unclear when the full Senate would take up the measure.
Cricket is the world’s second-most popular sport, behind soccer, and has been gaining steam here in the U.S., thanks largely to a new format in which matches can be completed in three to four hours, rather than over a period of days.
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