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What we've built together since 2025

With help from neighbors, funders and partners, we've helped open new courts and a new plaza, filled Tingey Plaza with markets and events, and started a community-led plan for Bridge Spot. Here's what that looks like, with the source for every number.

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Open play on the Krughoff courts on a sunny day, with the freeway on one side and trees on the other
Open play at the Krughoff Pickleball Center. Photo: Navy Yard BID

By the numbers

The numbers, and where they come from

$388,300

Invested in fiscal year 2026 (October 2025 to September 2026): $212,900 in physical improvements and capital projects, and $175,400 in programming and partner support

Source: Foundation financial records

Eight

Spaces where we design, fund, program or operate

Source: Foundation records

Five

Free public pickleball courts at the Krughoff Center, open since July 2026

Source: Krughoff Pickleball Center

$121,458

Raised from community donors for the Krughoff Center

Source: Foundation records

58,000

Visits to our events in 2026

Source: Capitol Riverfront Parks Foundation and Placer.ai

30

Local makers and artists at the first Tingey Plaza Holiday Market, December 2025

Source: Market vendor list

17

Event days across four events at Tingey Plaza, December 2025 to July 2026

Source: Foundation records

47

People who've answered the Bridge Spot survey so far (it's still open)

Source: Bridge Spot survey, October 2026

38

Volunteers who pitched in during 2026

Source: Foundation records

Before and after

What changed

Krughoff Pickleball Center

Players on the bare asphalt roadway under the freeway, before the Krughoff courts were built

Before

Players on the bare asphalt of an abandoned road.

Players and spectators at the finished Krughoff Pickleball Center courts on a summer day

After

Five resurfaced, lined and netted courts, paid for by community fundraising.

Square 739 Art Fence

The Square 739 lot today: an empty lot behind a plain green construction fence on 2nd St SE

Today

An empty lot behind a plain construction fence.

Concept view of the Square 739 art fence from 2nd St SE, wrapped in bands of green, blue and yellow

Next

The same fence as a large public artwork, installed at the end of October 2026.

Concept by My Ly Design; both images over Google Street View (credit: Google).

Emblem Plaza

The Emblem Plaza lot in 2022, with patchy grass and an old concrete pad

Before

The lot in 2022, with patchy grass and an old concrete pad.

Emblem Plaza in evening sun, with a new lawn, planting beds and young trees, and the Washington Monument in the distance

After

A new plaza with lawn, planting beds and young trees, opened November 2025.

Project highlights

Where the work stands

Players on the Krughoff Pickleball Center courts beneath the freeway on a sunny afternoon

Open since July 2026

Robert M. Krughoff Pickleball Center

Five free courts on a former dead-end road under the freeway, built and kept up with community donations.

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Emblem Plaza in evening sun, with a new lawn, planting beds and young trees, and the Washington Monument in the distance

Opened November 2025

Emblem Plaza

A new plaza at 801 Virginia Ave SE, opened with a neighborhood planting day. Portal stones from the historic CSX railway now serve as seating.

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A crowd gathered under the arch tents at Tingey Plaza for a soccer watch party on a sunny day

December 2025 to July 2026

Tingey Plaza

We designed and ran the plaza: four events across 17 event days, from a 30-vendor holiday market to Asia in a Bite and a World Cup watch party. A new location is in the works.

See what happened at Tingey Plaza
Artists using the Bridge Spot "open wall" as a rotating canvas

Under way

Bridge Spot community design

An open house, a zine workshop and a survey are shaping a new futsal and basketball court, a skate park and public art.

Read what we've learned so far

Help us build what's next

None of this happens without people pitching in – a gift, a Saturday morning, an idea. Our first annual report will be on the About page in November 2026.

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