Los Angeles Stadium
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| Location |
Industry, California Grand Crossing, California |
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| Coordinates | 34°00′40″N 117°49′39″W / 34.011155°N 117.827511°WCoordinates: 34°00′40″N 117°49′39″W / 34.011155°N 117.827511°W |
| Owner | Edward P. Roski |
| Capacity | 75,000 (estimated, expandable to 80,000 for Super Bowl games) |
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| Construction cost | $800 million (estimated) |
| Architect | Aedas Sport and Dan Meis, FAIA |
Los Angeles Stadium was a proposed 75,000-seat football stadium, the centerpiece of a 600-acre entertainment district in Industry, California. Edward P. Roski, a part-owner of the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA and Los Angeles Kings of the NHL, announced plans for the stadium on the northern side of the interchange of state routes 57 and 60, 22 miles (35 km) east of Downtown Los Angeles with the purpose of attracting an NFL team to the Los Angeles region. The Greater Los Angeles Area, the second-largest metropolitan area in the United States, was the nation's largest media market without an NFL team from 1995 to 2015. Upon construction, the district would be named Grand Crossing, California.
The proposal, although it was never publicly withdrawn, was effectively rendered obsolete after the league approved the St. Louis Rams' relocation to Los Angeles in 2016; the Rams' proposal involves building their own City of Champions Stadium in Inglewood. The Industry proposal, which received a full approval from all regulatory authorities but never found a willing team to move into the proposed stadium, sat dormant from 2011 until the Inglewood proposal was approved.
Roski, who helped build Staples Center, stated that the new 75,000-seat stadium would be privately financed and would be the centerpiece of a new 600-acre entertainment and retail complex in Industry which would have included 25,000 ample on-site parking spaces. The proposed stadium and mixed-use development was designed by Dan Meis, FAIA, and Aedas Sport out of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles County site would have put it in reach of 12 million people in a 25-mile (40 km) radius, including in Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties and the San Fernando Valley. Roski and his spokesman have asserted that a football stadium in the city could mean as much as $400 million in yearly revenue to businesses and bring more than 18,000 jobs to the area. Project supporters asserted that aspects of the stadium design, such as the use of hilly terrain to vastly reduce the cost of construction and the multi-use capabilities of the planned surrounding development, as well as Roski's success in gaining support from local elected officials in the City of Industry, where the proposed stadium site is located, gave the plan a strong possibility of success. Project critics asserted that it required more public funding than had been stated, and questioned the costs and benefits of the project.
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