The Washington Commanders signed a lease for 60,000 square feet of office space at 2200 Pennsylvania Ave. in the first quarter of 2026, a team spokesperson confirmed.
The Commanders will house offices for some senior leadership and a sales center, a team spokesperson said, fulfilling its agreement with the D.C. government to relocate administrative and sales offices to the District as part of the team’s move back to the city. The move, first reported by the Washington Business Journal, coincides with the planned 2030 opening of the Robert F. Kennedy Stadium Campus in Southeast D.C., where the Commanders will play in the District for the first time in 34 years.
The building is part of the Avenue complex real estate developer Boston Properties completed in 2011, housing commercial offices and residential area above the ground-floor retail on land it leased from GW under a 60-year agreement to generate nonacademic revenue for the University. The University purchased parts of the complex, including the Residences on The Avenue and the ground-floor retail spaces leased to tenants, including Whole Foods, Sweetgreen and Circa, from a Kuwait-linked investment firm, Wafra Inc., in 2023.
The Commanders will occupy about 13 percent of the building’s total roughly 460,000 square footage once they’re fully moved in, a date the team has not yet made public.
Boston Properties, which owns the part of the complex the Commanders are moving into, did not return a request for comment.
The Commanders relocated administrative offices from Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland, to a 27,516 square foot space on the top floor of a four-story office in College Park, Maryland, in 2024 to make room for additional suites at the stadium.
The lease agreement comes as D.C. prepares to welcome the Commanders back to the RFK stadium site after lengthy negotiations between local, federal and private stakeholders. The team left D.C. for Landover, Maryland, in 1996 and the stadium fell dormant after D.C. United left in 2017. Congress transferred control of the campus to the District in late 2024 before the D.C. Council later approved a stadium deal with the team last fall, paving the way for their return to the District.
