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

If all goes as planned, the hospital compound will offer patient rooms covering 800,000 sf of space, as well as a 150,000-sf medical building, a 100,000-sf research facility and underground parking to accommodate as many as 1,500 vehicles. As the Office of the City Administrator has outlined, DC would donate the nine-acre parcel to Howard and the university would oversee operations of the hospital. And assuming the proposal makes it through all the city checkpoints, NCMC could open its doors in 2009.