Inglewood City Council Approves Construction of Los Angeles-Area Stadium for Rams

[BusSport]

Council OKs Los Angeles stadium backed by Rams' Kroenke:

INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- The Inglewood City Council late Tuesday night approved plans to build a football stadium that includes St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke as a partner, clearing a path for a return to the Los Angeles area of the NFL for the first time in two decades.

The council approved the $2 billion plan with a 5-0 vote after a meeting with several hours of public comment and many vocal Rams fans wearing jerseys in attendance.

The vote adopts a new redevelopment plan without calling a public vote, effectively kickstarting construction and sidestepping lengthy environmental review of issues such as noise, traffic and air pollution.

It adds the 80,000 seat, 60-acre stadium to an existing 2009 plan to redevelop the former Hollywood Park racetrack site with homes, offices, stores, parks and open space and a hotel.

Kroenke is part of the Hollywood Park Land Co. development group that is promoting the project.

New urgency came to the issue last week with the announcement that the Oakland Raiders and the San Diego Chargers are planning a shared stadium in suburban Carson if they don't get their current hometowns to cough up enough money to replace their aging stadiums. Another stadium plan remains alive for downtown Los Angeles, but has no team attached.

 

[BusSport]

The Rams are stepping up the competition against the Chargers and Raiders.

 

[RegentDenali]

Wow. Huge step for the Rams back to L.A.

 

[Battlelyon]

The Rams are stepping up the competition against the Chargers and Raiders.

stepping up, the Rams were a lot farther in the game then the supposed Raiders/Chargers shared stadium.

 

[SteveDallas]

$2 billion tax payer dollars. What does that break down to per person in LA County? Somebody needs to put some politicians in jail.

 

[SteveDallas]

I looked up 2013 census for LA. Looks like the cost will be $197.00 per person in the County.

 

[WizardHawk]

$2 billion tax payer dollars. What does that break down to per person in LA County? Somebody needs to put some politicians in jail.

From a story on it on the Seattle Times:

Meany has emphasized that the plan does not include any taxpayer dollars to build the stadium, though developers could recoup tens of millions of dollars in costs ranging from installing streetlights and fire hydrants to running shuttle buses and providing officers as security on game days.

Butts, the mayor, said the project was “the best financial arrangement in the history of stadium deals in this country.” Supporters also said the stadium would bring the city more than 10,000 jobs and tens of millions of dollars a year in new tax revenue.

 

[boltfan72]

The Rams are stepping up the competition against the Chargers and Raiders.

Other way around. The Chargers/Raiders announcement was in reaction to Kroenke.

 

[boltfan72]

$2 billion tax payer dollars. What does that break down to per person in LA County? Somebody needs to put some politicians in jail.

Neither project will use public money.

 

[GenJac]

And let's just get this out there: teams are looking at Carson and Inglewood because they can't suck anymore money out of their current cities, right? So to think they will be able to do a "private finance" deal in the new cities is crazy. If an NFL team relocates to southern Calif. they expect the taxpayers to come up with millions for the new stadium construction.