The team worked with architectural design firm Populous on the club concept and turned to Clark Construction to build it, which it teased in renderings Wednesday.
The chance to high-five Terry McLaurin pregame doesn’t come cheap. Membership starts at $15,000 and includes two passes to the Tunnel Club.
Washington’s ownership group, led by Josh Harris, has put more than $75 million into the stadium since it purchased the team in July 2023. The group began to make incremental improvements before its inaugural season and has continued to make alterations ahead of Year 2. Its goal: Create a more attractive game-day experience in Landover while continuing to search for a new stadium location in D.C., Maryland or Virginia.
“We’re going to improve the existing stadium as much as we can while we look for a new home because it’s not the bones, necessarily,” Harris said of the Landover stadium in November. “The bones obviously can be repaired; they can be fixed. It’s more the way modern stadiums are set up; they’re very different than stadiums that are older. And so whether it’s the premium areas being really close to the game itself, how the suites are situated, how much premium there is, the WiFi — I mean, a lot of that stuff just can’t be done in an older stadium. So we’re going to be looking at ultimately how do we move to a new stadium.”
The team announced most of the changes in February, including the 1932 Club, a 22,000-square-foot premium space for season ticket holders. It includes 28 private suites for up to 12 people apiece (all are sold out) and 108 theater box seats. Like the Tunnel Club, membership to the 1932 Club comes with catering and access to select membership events. (The franchise was established in 1932.)
In 2022, under the ownership of Daniel Snyder, the team added terrace tables to the club level for season ticket holders. The private seating, located in the east and west end zones, includes a “half-moon” table, mesh seating, complimentary beer and cocktails and, in certain areas, complimentary food service. This offseason the team added 72 more terrace tables.
Washington also added touchless security at all of the stadium’s entry gates, upgraded the sound system and lighting, added touchless food and beverage markets on the main concourse, resurfaced parking lots and updated furnishings and carpet on the club level.
To help with the costs, NFL owners approved $86.5 million in funding for the Commanders for stadium improvements, which would amount to a loan from the visiting teams’ shares of ticket revenue.
Still on the to-do list for the Commanders is finding a naming rights partner. Shipping giant FedEx severed its agreement with the team two years early, sapping the Commanders of roughly $15 million in remaining revenue from the deal.
