To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 20 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday he had signed a bill allowing the construction of a 75,000-seat stadium that developers hope will lure an NFL team back to the Los Angeles area.
Schwarzenegger said he signed the environmental exemption bill last week but saved the announcement for a press conference in Industry, where the stadium would be built about 15 miles east of Los Angeles.
The bill would nullify a lawsuit filed by residents in nearby Walnut over the project's environmental impact.
Schwarzenegger called the lawsuit frivolous as he addressed a crowd of union members wearing hardhats. Across the street, a dozen protesters held signs saying "No Stadium."
"This is the best kind of action state government can create -- action that cuts red tape, generates jobs, is environmentally friendly and brings a continued economic boost to California," Schwarzenegger said.
Majestic has targeted seven teams as candidates to move to the Los Angeles area: the Buffalo Bills, Jacksonville Jaguars, Minnesota Vikings, St. Louis Rams, San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders and San Francisco 49ers.
The firm has said the teams are in stadiums that are either too small or can't be updated with luxury box seats or other revenue sources an NFL club needs to thrive.
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Project Site Statistics
* Total Square Acreage: 592
* Stadium (with Team Facilities): 75,000 Seats, including 11,000 Club seats and 175 Suites
* Office Buildings: 1.49 million sq ft
* Retail Shops: 833,000 sq ft
* Restaurants: 162,000 sq ft
* Live Theater: 5,000 seats (60,000 sq ft)
* Movie Theater: 1,200 seats (60,000 sq ft)
* Green and non-parking Open Space: 271 acres
Stadium Statistics
* Total Seats: 75,000 (expandable to 80,000 for Super Bowl games)
* Suites: 175
* Club Level: 11,000
* Team Offices: 45,000 sq ft
* National Football League (NFL) Attraction: 40,000 sq ft
* Team Store and Other Sponsored Retail Stores: 30,000 sq ft
* Restaurants: 30,000 sq ft
* Banquet facilities: 20,000 sq ft
* NFL Team Training Facility: 115,000 sq ft
* Medical Center and Clinic: 100,000 sq ft
* Parking Spaces: 25,000
After almost 14 years of not having a home market team Los Angeles is finally going to have a new state of the art stadium! Well, sort of. If you
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 20 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. you will see exactly how close to LA the City of Industry is. Don't let semantics get in the way though! Now that LA has a football stadium waiting to be built, it needs a team (or two) to use it. Since the NFL isn't going to expand anytime soon that means someone is about to lose a team. Let's look at the likely candidates:
Buffalo Bills: Once Ralph Wilson dies, the team may not remain in Buffalo any longer. Currently playing games in Toronto on a regular basis. Likely team to move in a few years but I would bet money on them heading towards Toronto and not across the country. Their lease is pretty much dependent on Ralph Wilson.
Jacksonville Jaguars: This team can't fill a stadium. They seem to care more about college football than NFL and are planning on drafting Tim Tebow in an effort to put more fans in the seats. Their owner swears he is not going to move the team.
Minnesota Vikings: They have been waiting for a new stadium for years. The Twins recently got a new stadium (but the Twins have actually won a title). I believe their lease expires in the near future.
St. Louis Rams: Used to be from LA, moved to St. Louis under somewhat shady circumstances, won a Super Bowl, owners died, kids may sell the team, lease can be voided in 2015 if the stadium is not in the top 25% of revenue. Good chance they could move back to LA but the people interested in owning the team seem to want to keep them there.
San Diego Chargers: Qualcomm is a piece of poo poo, but they seem to be building a new stadium in Escondido. I wouldn't count on them to move to LA unless this deal falls apart.
Oakland Raiders: Like the Rams they left LA in 1995, and like the Rams now they are terrible. A bad rental agreement led to the team losing a large amount of revenue due to PSLs. Al Davis believes he still owns the rights to football in Los Angeles (although a court disagreed). At this point I wouldn't count Al out.
San Francisco 49ers: The other team from the Bay Area who need a new stadium. They are trying to build one in Santa Clara which is about as close to SF as Industry is to LA. Not really sure what happened with that announcement.
One of these teams is likely going to move to Los Angeles. No one wants their team to leave and no one likes stealing a team (except Baltimore, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Arizona, Oklahoma City, etc).
Not to mention that moving a team would likely lead to some sort of re-alignment of the divisions. There are a lot of factors at play here and a lot of people are going to be disappointed. At this point the question isn't when will LA get a new team but which team will it be. Arnold wants two teams but I wouldn't count on that.
If I had to rank the teams in likeliness to move I would say the Jaguars, Vikings, or Rams. I don't know if the NFL would allow the Raiders to move back to LA, the 49ers aren't leaving Northern California, the Bills are going to move to Toronto if anywhere and the Chargers seem to have their stadium issues almost sorted out.
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