Overview
- The D.C. Office of Planning released the draft master plan on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, for the 180-acre RFK campus and will accept public comments through Aug. 14 before revising the plan for D.C. Council review this fall.
- The draft envisions roughly 5,500 to 6,600 new homes with at least 30% required to be affordable, placing housing as a central component of the redevelopment.
- Planners allocate about 60 acres to parks and riverfront access and propose roughly 1,200 hotel rooms plus more than 260,000 square feet of retail and commercial space to create a year-round waterfront neighborhood.
- The plan sets parking at about 6,000 garage spaces plus 2,000 temporary surface spots and relies on expanded Stadium-Armory capacity rather than a new Oklahoma Avenue Metro station while Metro and the city propose a $300 million upgrade and a proposed H Street/Benning Road 'Gold Line' BRT.
- The multi-billion-dollar project keeps a staged schedule with D.C. committing roughly $1 billion for site work, construction aimed to start in spring 2027 for a targeted stadium opening around 2030, and contractual development deadlines for some parcels by 2040, and neighbors have raised concerns about displacement and gentrification.