LA Rams!
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The stadium is going to more than a stadium. The city will support the team, and the owner is footing a lot of the bill, from my understanding. Details are coming out now though...
No question this stadium will absolutely raise the bar. It's next level. So glad we got the Rams and not the Raiders. Don't care where the Chargers go, just hope it isn't here.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-inglewood-nfl-stadium-20151221-story.h
No question this stadium will absolutely raise the bar. It's next level. So glad we got the Rams and not the Raiders. Don't care where the Chargers go, just hope it isn't here.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-inglewood-nfl-stadium-20151221-story.h
Now let's hope they bring back the old school unis.
Big difference between being in a metro area of 15 Million+ and the less than 1.5 Million of Jacksonville.
Nah...that area will be revitalized in a big way. Just like Culver City which is near it, and Manhattan/Playa not to far, that area is going too very different.
It's not what it is now. It's what it will be.
It's not what it is now. It's what it will be.
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It's on the site of the old Hollywood Park casino/racetrack (near the old Fabulous Forum) It's close to LAX - but actually on the east side of the 405 (freeway). It's in a bit of a residential area, about 1 mile off the freeway - not sure how, but they better figure out a way to handle the traffic.
not sure it will revitalize the area (in the same way Staples center/convention center and a lot of new hotels/condos have helped downtown LA).
I'm kinda excited about this......
I'm just happy that the taxpayers in Saint Louis didnt get stuck footing the bill for ANOTHER new stadium (the various entities out there still owe almost $150 millin in bond payments for their current soon to be empty stadium), and that those in LA wont either. Hopefully San Diego decides not to pay up either.
As for Inglewood - it might turn around but its not going to be because of a football stadium that gets used maybe 25 times a year (if there are two teams.) At least they didnt waste a nice transit accessible site on it.
Insane that LA didn't have a team in the NFL for all these years.....always sad to see a city lose a team though.
What's the over/under on how long this incarnation of the Rams lasts? Los Angeles- the City of Front-runners.
Will never give up on Rutgers but the Rams moving to LA, Jerry's bonehead ego and his reluctance to draft a qb really makes me intrigued to give up on the Cowboys. Nevertheless, I am very happy to have the NFL back in LA although the Rams were in St Louis when I moved here.
They'll be back to irrelevance after the novelty wears off. Same as the Brooklyn Nets and Barclays center
I lived in LA when the Rams were there. You could say what you want but LA did a poor job supporting football in the past and that includes USC and UCLA. Similar to Miami - when there's better things to do sports take a back seat. I hope they do OK but it's not a given.
You aren't understanding what is going to be built there. It's not just a stadium.
Heard they needed to go back to LA because they wanted to use their old theme song. Bonus Jersey Shore reference at 2:02.
agree with Cali, this facility is going to be insanely awesome. I really wanted the downtown stadium to be built next to staples but this one is going to be incredible.
most importantly, I can't see how this stadium doesn't host at least a semi-important bowl game . Here's hoping the B1G gets involved in it.
most importantly, I can't see how this stadium doesn't host at least a semi-important bowl game . Here's hoping the B1G gets involved in it.
Ah - I see. Well as long as its not a sea of parking surrounding a stadium, then it should work out, at least in LA - its not like there is a shortage of demand for housing there. Probably an improved use of the space vs the previous racetrack tenant.
How many bets did I place at Hollywood park ?Too many to remember
I love this venue for the stadium. It will make the rich white folks like Cali travel through da hood to sit in their million dollar suites. :sunglasses::sunglasses::sunglasses: It's about time that the city of lights had pigskin again Enjoy it Cali
I love this venue for the stadium. It will make the rich white folks like Cali travel through da hood to sit in their million dollar suites. :sunglasses::sunglasses::sunglasses: It's about time that the city of lights had pigskin again Enjoy it Cali
Some of you guys just love to argue for the sake of arguing. Just know that Kroenke is a developer and if this project gets built it will be unlike anything else that an NFL owner has built. Do a little research before you start arguing. Doesn't sound like 357 days of nothing.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-inglewood-nfl-stadium-20151221-story.html
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-inglewood-nfl-stadium-20151221-story.html.
St Louis got screwed by the owner? No sir, St. Louis got screwed by the idiot politicians that gave Georgia Frontiere a free stadium with idiotic clauses forcing taxpayers to foot the bill for a never ending list of free upgrades. On top of that they wanted to hand over an additional $500M to build a NEW stadium before the old one is even paid off. I'm happy for the StL taxpayers getting to spend $500M on actual public services instead of a playground for corporate execs.
Hey no argument there. In the long run they are better off than footing the bill for a stadium.
Is the facility gonna be the LA equivalent of Xanadu?
Oh please...this ain't my first rodeo. I actuslly covered commercial and institutional development in Boston for years. There are four kinds of lies....lies, damn lies, developer promises, and architectural renderings. Everyone is being hoodwinked. This has absolute boondoggle written all over it.
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I live in San Diego now. I could not care less if the Chargers leave. San Diego does not need a football team. The Chargers leaving will have nearly zero impact on the economy or life here. No one comes here for the Chargers - just the perfect weather and beautiful beaches!
That being said if San Diego can cut a deal that puts a stadium downtown, makes it part of a convention center expansion that can drive new growth and only requires the tax payers to cover the convention center cost then do it.
I also do not blame the Chargers for leaving. That stadium they play in has got to be the worst in American professional sports. I would guess it would be considered a poor stadium in most of the world.
That being said if San Diego can cut a deal that puts a stadium downtown, makes it part of a convention center expansion that can drive new growth and only requires the tax payers to cover the convention center cost then do it.
I also do not blame the Chargers for leaving. That stadium they play in has got to be the worst in American professional sports. I would guess it would be considered a poor stadium in most of the world.
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Inglewood always up to no good!
Close to the 405 but that area is really not so great. I don't really believe stadiums revitalize areas either. And even still there is a cap on how nice the area can be with LAX right there.
Close to the 405 but that area is really not so great. I don't really believe stadiums revitalize areas either. And even still there is a cap on how nice the area can be with LAX right there.
They will host SBs, I'm sure Final 4s, etc...Kroenke is a grade A prick, but he got it done.
NFC West now with Seattle, SF, LA...pretty cool.
Stupid is what was built in NJ with MetLife Stadium, right next to Xanadu.
Oakland should just come up with a lease agreement with 49ers to use Levis.
I'd like to keep the powder blues in SD. Best uniforms and nickname.
NFC West now with Seattle, SF, LA...pretty cool.
Stupid is what was built in NJ with MetLife Stadium, right next to Xanadu.
Oakland should just come up with a lease agreement with 49ers to use Levis.
I'd like to keep the powder blues in SD. Best uniforms and nickname.
Flying into LAX will allow anyone to realize that this project will spur an entire make over for the Inglewood area. Hollywood race track is demolished, the Forum sits mostly idle and there is a small casino nearby. An entertainment center/stadium complex will be a financial boom. Lots of use and tax revenue for LA.
Count me as doubtful that a stadium complex will rejuvenate an otherwise downtrodden place. Such a project might work in a real downtown that's already on the way back up but that does not describe Inglewood.