The D.C. Council will take its final vote Wednesday to approve the deal to bring the Washington Commanders back to the District and build a new stadium on the site of the old RFK Stadium.
If you’ve driven by RFK recently, you know work is well underway to bring the old stadium down.
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Crews have been hard at work deconstructing RFK Stadium section by section, bit by bit. What remains is a skeleton of what it once was when football fans shook the ground . Now it’s cranes and bulldozers shaking the ground.
Last year, crews began removing the seats and what historic artifacts still remained. Now, it’s just steel and concrete left to come down.
"By fall of 2026, it will be all gone," Events DC Executive Vice President Steve