Is the $1 Billion for RFK Stadium a Good Bet for DC?

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2025-08-01

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Dasgupta, Sunil, host. Interview with Yasim Say. “Is the $1 Billion for RFK Stadium a Good Bet for DC?” I Hate Politics (podcast). August 1, 2025. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7KgeDLfXP5UkywyMLsKOZb.

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Abstract

Washington DC Council has been getting ready to vote on Mayor Muriel Bowser’s plan to redevelop the RFK Stadium and its adjacent land as the new home for the Washington Commanders football team, which will cost the city $1 billion. Sunil Dasgupta talked to the DC Policy Center Executive Director and longtime DC public finance economist Yasim Say if this was a fair deal? Music by Washington DC prog rock band, A Shrewdness of Apes.