{"id":193777,"date":"2025-07-09T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/193777\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:00:16","slug":"it-appears-josh-harris-planned-dc-commanders-stadium-agreement-wont-be-signed-by-july-15th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/193777\/","title":{"rendered":"It Appears Josh Harris&#8217; Planned DC Commanders Stadium Agreement Won&#8217;t Be Signed By July 15th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstalkflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/A.-COMMANDERS-TO-RETURN-TO-WASHINGTON-DC.webp\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/sportstalkflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/A.-COMMANDERS-TO-RETURN-TO-WASHINGTON-DC-696x464.webp\"   alt=\"\" title=\"A. COMMANDERS TO RETURN TO WASHINGTON DC\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The city and team owner planned to get a deal done by mid-July.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In April, the owner of the National Football League\u2019s Washington Commanders franchise, Josh Harris, Washington D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced Harris wanted to build a $3.6 billion, 65,000-seat domed stadium at the site of RFK Stadium along with retail space, office space and residential space on land now controlled by the District. That deal was supposed to have been signed by July 15th. There is an ongoing political fight and the July 15th\u00a0deadline for the signing may not be reached.\u00a0 The team played at that stadium from 1961 through 1995. Just because there was an announcement, that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that Harris can pack up the equipment, load it on a truck and start using the planned building in 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Harris and his Commanders business partners will pay $2.7 billion for construction, while D.C. will contribute about $1.1 billion which includes $500 million for construction, $356 million for parking, $89 million for a \u201csportsplex\u201d and $202 million for utilities. The line from Bowser\u2019s office is that Harris\u2019s stadium-village will generate $4 billion in taxes. \u201cThis land has been blighted and underutilized for too long,\u201d Bowser said. \u201cWhat our deal with the Washington Commanders provides is the fastest and surest route to developing the RFK campus, and not just delivering sports and entertainment, but delivering housing, jobs, recreation and economic development.\u201d Meanwhile eight miles east of the Washington site is the present Commanders home field and what becomes of the Landover, Maryland site? The plan seems to have Harris and his partners raze the stadium and develop the site. Goodell said a new stadium would increase D.C.\u2019s chances of hosting a Super Bowl \u201cdramatically. Maryland and Virginia politicians went after Harris\u2019s business but Washington holds the cards.<\/p>\n<p>Evan Weiner\u2019s books are available at iTunes\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/author\/evan-weiner\/id595575191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/author\/evan-weiner\/id595575191<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Evan can be reached at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportstalkflorida.com\/nfl-featured\/it-appears-josh-harris-planned-dc-commanders-stadium-agreement-wont-be-signed-by-july-15th\/mailto:evan_weiner@hotmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">evan_weiner@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/josh-harris-headshot-300x300-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-372572\"  \/>Joel Harris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city and team owner planned to get a deal done by mid-July. In April, the owner of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[427,7,5516,5517,1002,122,6,4336,1902,505,2084,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-193777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-commanders","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-josh-harris","11":"tag-landover","12":"tag-maryland","13":"tag-national-football-league","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-rfk-stadium","16":"tag-roger-goodell","17":"tag-super-bowl","18":"tag-virginia","19":"tag-washington","20":"tag-washington-commanders","21":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114823877778765201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}