The current proposal calls for two giant parking garages — housing thousands of vehicles — directly across from Kingman Park homes, threatening the health and safety of our community and impeding access to the riverfront.

There is a better way! Most neighbors we’ve spoken with propose adding a new metro infill station along Benning and Oklahoma Ave NE, reducing parking overall, and relocating what's left to unoccupied portions of the RFK site and surrounding areas. Follow our friends at Kingman Park Action for more information.

The Sierra Club DC Chapter calls for legally binding sustainability standards to be included in legislation on the redevelopment of RFK Stadium site to ensure protection of the environment, climate, public health, and the Anacostia River. New development at RFK should showcase best practices for healthy, sustainable development in the District that will benefit Ward 7 residents and serve all DC residents.

“This once-in-a-generation opportunity can’t be squandered on a stadium deal that prioritizes private profit over public benefit. WIN represents members from all 8 wards—some want the Commanders back in DC, others oppose a new stadium. Despite our differences, we’re united on this: any stadium deal must deliver real benefits to ALL residents and taxpayers, especially those East of the River. If this is truly going to be a “partnership,” as many parties claim, then the public must benefit from public investment.”

Since 2003, Empower DC has advanced racial, economic and environmental justice by investing in the leadership and organized political power of DC’s lowest income residents and communities.

Campaigns include environmental justice, housing justice, racial justice, and more.

A severe, and growing, lack of full-service grocery stores in Wards 7 and 8 is one of the contributing factors for food insecurity

Of the 49 full-service grocery stores in the District of Columbia, only two are located in Ward 7 and just one is in Ward 8.

“No Billionaire’s Playground: RFK for the Community is a coalition of RFK neighbors, other residents, and organizations committed to economic and environmental justice who want the RFK campus to be used to benefit all District of Columbia residents, with a wide array of uses that enrich our community.  

Our name comes from a Kingman Park resident who responded to a community survey over the future of RFK, who said they don’t want the space to be turned into a ‘billionaire’s playground.’”