Posted on 09/28/2012 8:08:53 PM PDT by dynachrome
The Los Angeles City Council on Friday approved a $1.2 billion plan to build a downtown football stadium, moving America's second most populous city closer than it's been in nearly two decades to having a professional football team.
Council members voted unanimously in favor of the Anschutz Entertainment Group's proposal to erect the 72,000-seat stadium in the city's downtown core. It will be named "Farmer's Field." AEG, controlled by billionaire Phil Anschutz, is up for sale but an agreement with the city will require its new owners to take up the stadium project.
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Seriously you could make an entire stadium luxury boxes, and it wouldn't matter a whit as far as profitablity.
There are massive areas of US cities that need to be leveled and replaced with sports/anything stuff.
It’ll be perfect for World Cup Soccer. Angelinos won’t be interested in the NFL any more than the used to be when they had two teams.
How about the South Carolina Gamecocks facing the Oregon State Beavers? That is one game the NCAA does NOT want to be played.
Goodbye Chargers.
This is an LA thing, not a California thing. If state generated funds
aren’t to be used for the new Niner stadium in Santa Clara then
we won’t let LA build a stadium on our dime either.
The Chargers will move back to LA.
700 million should be a new stadium, not paint on an old one. What do the Rams need? 8 games a year, 2 play offs if lucky, maybe a Super every 10.
Some one needs to say no
Before the bonds are paid off on the new one, The NFL will be back looking for another tax payer financed multi million dollar “renovation”
This has to stop
The city negotiated a bad deal with the Rams. They get the revenue from everything -- even the parking and are on the hook for nothing. The city makes more money from events held when the Rams are away and in the off season. And -- one of their home games every year is played in London.
Football cost money. In the near future money will be in short supply.
My prediction: If built, this stadium will, in the not too distant future, resemble the coliseum of Rome.
Bread & circus - we need to keep the masses occupied.
Gladiators - they’re coming...
<>If built, this stadium will, in the not too distant future, resemble the coliseum of Rome.<>
You mean like this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Memorial_Coliseum
Have the USC Trojans ever faced the Oregon State Beavers? Just wondering.
Karl, if you live in Los Angeles and want to watch a live NFL game, you'll have to drive to either San Diego or Oakland to see one. Neither destination is exactly 'easy driving distance'.
By the way, the former Los Angeles Rams abandoned the city for Anaheim, California, after the city of L.A. refused to build them a modern football stadium. Owner Georgia Frontiere later moved the team from Anaheim, CA to St. Louis, MO.
Before that move, the Oakland Raiders moved to Los Angeles, and played in the city's ancient L.A. Coliseum. Eventually, they too, demanded a new taxpayer funded stadium, but the city fathers again said, 'no'. They then hot footed back to Oakland, leaving L.A. without a team to this day.
Sloppy on my part. I meant after LA gets a team, but the idea didn't get from my head to my fingers.
I was excluding some other major cities like San Jose, CA and Columbus, OH which that would never get teams because they are too close to other cities that already have teams.
I've often stated that the NFL is perfectly happy with LA not having a team because they can use it to threaten other cities into building stadiums. I don't know how many times the name Los Angeles Bengals was used during the tax levy drive to pay for new stadiums. Once LA gets a team, that threat goes away and a lot of teams will be told that their current stadiums are good enough.
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