MLS commissioner Don Garber and Mayor Muriel Bowser were among the guests as the club formally broke ground on its 20,000-seat venue.
WASHINGTON — For the past decade, soccer-specific stadiums have opened across MLS for clubs new and old. All the while, D.C. United — once considered the league's flagship franchise — toiled at archaic RFK Stadium.
It was in July 2013 that plans to build a 20,000-seat stadium at the Buzzard Point property in Southwest Washington were announced. In December 2014, the city formally approved funding for the project. Yet United fans echoed the refrain: They'll believe it when shovels are in the ground.