\u00a0building<\/a> will honor the franchise\u2019s past and the stadium where the team once played.<\/p>\n“I was there in the 70s, 80s, and early 90s, so I lived through how amazing those teams were and what an impact it had on me, and I know that thousands of our fans, or millions maybe, feel the same way,” said Harris. “I think it\u2019s important to go back to that as much as you can, but at the same time we have a bright future ahead. Even the shape of the stadium and the look of the stadium, when you look at it, it looks like RFK, but it\u2019s been modernized.\u201d<\/p>\n
Several renderings have been released since the stadium deal was finalized last year.<\/p>\n
Harris says those images show off some of the bells and whistles fans can look forward to, but not all of them.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re doing some of the detailed design features and there\u2019s so many cool opportunities with the innovation in stadiums. Whether it\u2019s the shape of the scoreboard, which we may have some things up our sleeve on,” said Harris. “Whether it\u2019s the size of the scoreboard, the sound, the nature of the roof. Where the premium, how close many of the seats are relative to other stadiums. There\u2019s so many great opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n
The new stadium pays homage to RFK, but Harris says he’s at least four years away from working on the stadium’s name and if it will include RFK.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first step is building the stadium. We\u2019re targeting 75,000 seats or availability. We want to host amazing events. We\u2019re trying to get the women\u2019s World Cup to play there, and all the best acts will play there,” said Harris. “There\u2019s so many things to do, so the naming rights is kind of way off.”<\/p>\n
The Commanders’ new stadium is expected to open in 2030. The National Capital Planning Commission is expected to vote on the approval of preliminary site and building plans for the RFK stadium project at its Thursday meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harris says utility construction at the old RFK site will begin in April, and stadium construction will start…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[427,7,6,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-843828","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-nfl","11":"tag-washington","12":"tag-washington-commanders","13":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116320587324048213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843828","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=843828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}