Commanders Promise to Preserve Some of RFK Stadium’s Heritage Trees

This story was supported with funds from SpotlightDC with reporting by participants in Hola Cultura’s Storytelling Program for Experiential Learning and copublished with the Washington City Paper. The story was written by Francisco Rodriguez and edited by Christine MacDonald, Hola Cultura’s executive director and editor.

When the Washington Commanders return to Northeast D.C. in a few years, at least some of the towering old heritage trees that have shaded the site for decades may still be there—the unlikely beneficiaries of more than a month of work by local activists.

In a Sept. 17 letter to the D.C. Council, the Commanders committed to saving an unspecified number of the estimated 31 heritage trees currently on the development site.

“We intend to protect as many of the Heritage Trees