The award-winning local chef is out to elevate the food at Audi Field, opening in 2018.

Proposed short-term plans for the site also include playing fields, a market hall, and a memorial to Robert F. Kennedy.

“Closing DC General is probably the hardest thing I will do as mayor,” she said.

Two overarching designs, one which reconfigures the current roadways, featured options for a stadium, arena, or neither.

The team released three new renderings on its site yesterday, and many more were submitted to the zoning commission.

“Since we began our campaign, the team never even smelled the playoffs, let alone made it to the playoffs.”

Events DC hopes to have its proposals ready to present to the public by January, and to submit them to the mayor and the City Council later next year.

If all goes to plan, D.C. United will take the field in their new home sometime in 2017.

Some witnesses expressed fervent support for the agreement.

Good news for fans of D.C. United: it looks like the council will get a stadium proposal by Christmas. It’s not quite that simple, though.