Already built and in use today are parking for 32,000 cars, a rail line to LAX, and two dozen freeway offramps.
Already built and in use today are parking for 32,000 cars, a rail line to LAX, and two dozen freeway offramps.
I want to see Kobe & Blake one-on-one.
Grammys, Oscars, Lakers, Clips, Dodgers, Bruins, Trojans, ... sure L.A. should get the Olys...
The persistence of the LA guy never fails to impress me. But what professional football team is gonna slap a track around their stadium? Nobody does that.
Bless them if they can do it without taxpayer money. More organizations and cities need to do this.
Frisco taxpayers didn't build the SF Giants place.
Leave it to Home Depot to design a state of the art facility to seat 100,000 fans at a sliding roor stadium. The stadium can be switched in 24 hours from football, track & field, soccer, motocross/super trucks, and even host a Mormon Underwear fashion show.
Construction would then begin on the 68,000-seat football stadium that would be expandable to 78,000 seats for big events like the Super Bowl and Final Four and also be in position to bid on international events like the World Cup and Olympics.
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nice venue to host a glee tv fan party
Note that the 2020 Olympics has already been narrowed down to 5 finalists, so 2024 is the next possible Olympics to bid for.
Hollywood TV has veto power over the IOC decision and can force the IOC to have the Olys in L.A. to fit the business model.
How about a USA Winter Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Farmers Field ? More that half of the USATF membership resides in the sun belt. I think athletes in Texas, Florida, Arizona, and California would rather compete outdoors in the winter months.
You are all a bunch saps. The stadium is to be located on prime real estate in downtown LA and part of the Convention Center will have to be demolished then rebuilt adjacent the proposed stadium. That will cost an estimated $350 million paid by taxpayers. The stadium investors give vague promises to repay a fraction of the cost. And taxpayers are carrying the tab for all the necessary surrounding infrastructure. Also, government gets left holding the bag with LA colisseum which it owns. Events will assuredly migrate over to a new stadium and revenues from use fees will decline. It would probably be nothing more than an exclusive home stadium for USC. Meanwhile the private investors will reap all the profits of a new stadium because its is "100% privately owned".
Do you guys think? Do you just read an article and take it to be truth and nothing but the whole truth? If nothing else use some common sense and recognize that in that location of LA there is probably a building of value that you have to get out of the way before you build the stadium.
With the economy the way it has been, citizens don't want to pay welfare to billionaires.
$B of freeway, water, sewer, gas, satellite, internet, telecomm, parking, fire station, and police station infrastucture has already been build, paid, and staffed by AEG when it built Staples Center. Lakers, Clippers, Oscars, and last Sunday's Emmys have been at Staples for years. AEG will own Farmers Field and rent it out for football, track, soccer, boxing, etc. The train lines have already been in use for years paid for by federal grants.
The L.A. Convention Center was built in the 1960s, is 40 years old, and long overdue improvements. Upgrades are too costly so it needs to be torn down and rebuilt. The L.A. Convention Center is not used for sports.
Soon the Space Shuttle is coming to Exposition Park for permanent display. As part of the initial land grant, by law, Exposition Park is owned by the citizens of Los Angeles thus private luxury boxes are NOT allowed. USC, etc. may not own any of the venues on Exposition Park. USC has a new 10,000 seat Galen Center indoor venue.
USC football and UCLA football are expected to play at Farmers. Maybe the Oakland Raiders, and perhaps a 2nd NFL teams will make their home stadium at Farmers. FIFA Mens, FIFA Womens, and IAAF are in talks. NFL commissioner & owners want to rotate every other or every third Super Bowl to Farmers.
Bottom line is the profits from your purchases at Home Depot are being used directly to build L.A. Farmers Field.
No taxpayer dollars...except for subsidizing all the tax breaks thrown at the various corporations involved.
taxpayers won't allow money from the general fund to be used for pro sports
why not just make it a 80k seat stadium ??????????????????
nope.... you are not getting itbillions in direct tax dollars required and billions more in lost revenue and rebuilding required
you don't get it wrote:
No taxpayer dollars...except for subsidizing all the tax breaks thrown at the various corporations involved.
Only the City of Los Angeles won't pay pro teams. The City of Santa Clara is building a 1 billion dollar stadium for the 49ers. The City of Houston spent $2B for an NFL team. Los Angeles gets teams because it's Los Angeles. There's only one place in the world that is Los Angeles.