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Since 1997, the Washington football team has called FedEx Field (née Jack Kent Cook Stadium) their home. Though their lease on the massive 79,000-capacity stadium doesn’t expire for another ten years, team owner Daniel Snyder says he’s already started planning for the team’s new stadium.

In an interview with Comcast SportsNet yesterday, Snyder said that they’ve “started meeting with architectural firms” to plan building a new home for the Washington football team. Although the team currently plays in the Prince George’s County town of Landover, Snyder says it’s not definite the team will stay in Maryland. “Whether it’s Washington, D.C., whether it’s another stadium in Maryland, whether it’s a stadium in Virginia, we’ve started the process,” he told CSN.

While the process for a new stadium is in the very, very early stages, Snyder did drop that he wants the new stadium—wherever it may be—to have a very “retro” feel. “We’ve already seen some preliminary drawings and I’m going to be very retro with it,” he said. “It’s gonna feel like RFK. It’s gonna move like RFK. I love that, I actually asked architectural firms to do it and they said that they can do it. I said that I think the lower bowl sections are going to want to rock the stadium like the old days.”

RFK Stadium, of course, was the Washington football team’s home in D.C. for more than three decades before they decamped to FedEx Field. With the excitement of a new football stadium in the works, the big question is whether it will remain in Maryland, or be built in D.C. or Virginia, where the team is headquartered.

Both D.C. Mayor Vince Gray and Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley have publicly said that the team should change their name, with Gray even saying on the record that they’d have to discuss a name-change if they want to move back to D.C. (Gray later told the Post that his words were “morphed” by reporters). Meanwhile, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has firmly remained mum on the issue, saying that it “hinges on economics.”

It’s no secret that D.C. officials want the team to move back to the city and, with D.C. shortlisted as one of the cities to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, many have speculated that, if it were to happen, a new stadium built to host the games could also mean a new stadium for the football team.

While the location for the new stadium is obviously very far off, the Post reports that PG County is already “[reaffirming their] county’s dedication” to the team. PG County Executive Rushern L. Baker III issued the following statement to the Post:

“Prince George’s County is proud to be the game day home to the Washington [football team] and County Executive Baker wants to keep them playing in our County for the next generation of fans,” Press Secretary Scott Peterson said in the statement. “The [Washington football team] have been great community partners and corporate citizens to Prince George’s County.”