The National Capital Medical Center would replace services thatonce existed at 1900 Massachusetts Ave. SE, the nine-acre siteformerly home to DC General Hospital, which shut its doors in 2001.The land sits off the Anacostia River between RFK Stadium and theCongressional Cemetery.

If all goes as planned, the hospital compound will offer patientrooms covering 800,000 sf of space, as well as a 150,000-sf medicalbuilding, a 100,000-sf research facility and underground parking toaccommodate as many as 1,500 vehicles. As the Office of the CityAdministrator has outlined, DC would donate the nine-acre parcel toHoward and the university would oversee operations of the hospital.And assuming the proposal makes it through all the citycheckpoints, NCMC could open its doors in 2009.

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