The District of Columbia Workplace of Planning and Mayor Muriel Bowser’s workplace launched the Robert F. Kennedy Campus Grasp Plan for a mixed-use improvement anchored by a brand new Washington Commanders Stadium.
The Washington, D.C. website encompasses the land the place the demolished Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Memorial Stadium was located. The masterplan is by Gensler and Perkins Eastman, and is in tandem with the design by HKS for the brand new stadium and plans for landscaping across the sports activities venue by OJB.
Renderings of the mixed-use neighborhood depict buildings confronted in brick and glass, populated sidewalks, and strolling and biking trails towards the water’s edge.
Perkins Eastman was employed in 2023 by the Washington Commanders to plan the parts of the positioning below the group’s management. Gensler was awarded a $750,000 contract from the District of Columbia late final yr to plan the city-owned land subsequent to the stadium.
Per the Workplace of Planning, 33 occasions have been held to collect neighborhood enter from nearly 1,800 members.
The masterplan outlines a improvement framework and concrete design tips for the 180-acre website on the Anacostia River, on the terminus of the capital’s monument axis. It requires between 5,500 and 6,500 new housing items, 30 % reasonably priced, and a complete of 6,000 storage parking areas.
Thirty % of the positioning shall be given over to public house and greenery. Neighborhood-serving retail, neighborhood-centered providers, and leisure locations might additionally take form.
The brand new Washington Commanders soccer stadium will rise at most 130 ft tall. Growth blocks surrounding the stadium will rise as much as heights of 110 ft.
These heights are in keeping with the zoning rules of the 1910 Act to Regulate the Top of Buildings.
The masterplan organizes the campus in six elements: the stadium, plaza, riverfront, and recreation districts, and Kingman and Anacostia Commons.
Anacostia Commons will hug the riverbank, and create a 200-foot, building-free buffer between the campus and the water. The “pure riparian zone” is required by legislation, as a part of the District’s 99-year lease for the positioning with the federal authorities.
The stadium anchors the leisure district, with a beneficiant entry plaza and concessions areas slated to be constructed round it. The plaza district shall be transit-oriented and can be utilized for tailgating and pop-ups.
Plans for the recreation district embrace athletic fields and neighborhood open house. Subsequent to the recreation district, Kingman Commons could be dwelling to a brand new SportsPlex and out of doors areas.
Arterial roads and visitors patterns will take into account multimodal entry by bettering pedestrian security and including house for bikes and different transit choices. A important hall, twenty second Road, would function a backbone for the campus.
The hall shall be multimodal, and have a devoted bus lane, two lanes for vehicles, and a biking path. Its sidewalks could be lined with eating places, seating, and extra. Secondary streets shall be four-lanes vast.
According to the 2021 District Complete Plan, the masterplan seeks to rectify previous spatial planning injustices that marginalized the historic Black communities in proximity to the campus, the Workplace of Planning stated.
The masterplan addresses inequities by “making investments in public house, housing alternatives, and financial advantages in communities most affected by historic and ongoing racial disparities.”
Planners used disaggregated knowledge to know present neighborhood circumstances and assess racial inequities associated to housing entry, transportation, recent meals entry, and socio-economic determinants, similar to academic and employment choices.
Now that the masterplan has been launched, a public remark interval begins that lasts by way of August 14.
The ultimate masterplan shall be submitted to the Nationwide Capital Planning Fee in September 2026.
