Entertainment Venues - Washington Nationals Baseball Stadium - Swinging Into Action In 2008!
Our Washington National's will be welcomed home in style via a beautiful, state-of-the-art new ballpark, slated to be ready for opening day 2008!
In Dec. 2004, DC and MLB agreed to a financing package for a $535 million publicly financed 41,000-seat baseball stadium to allow the former Expos (now the Nationals) to move to DC. In Feb. 2006 the DC City Council passed the required stadium lease agreement, amended to cap the city's expenditures on the project at $611 million.
The stadium is scheduled to be for Opening Day in Spring 2008; the team currently plays at RFK Stadium. The stadium will anchor the new Ballpark District, where shops, offices, residences and other entertainment will eventually fill the area north of the stadium, and where the Navy Yard Metro station will serve as an arrival point for most stadium-goers.
For more information, visit www.jdland.com/dc/stadium.cfm.