Rams Owner Stan Kroenke Plans to Build Stadium in Los Angeles

Stan Kroenke purchased 60 acres of land in LA’s Inglewood neighborhood, and to the surprise of nobody, intends to build an 80,000-seat NFL stadium on it. According to Sam Farmer of the Los Angeles Times, Kroenke will be collaborating with the Stockbridge Capital Group, who own a 238-acre retail, office, hotel and residential development adjacent to the planned stadium, on the project. (Future TBL Post: Drunk Fans Fight in That Fountain.)

Supposedly, no tax dollars would be used in the construction, but it remains to be seen whether any types of subsidies or discounts magically emerge. Commerce works in mysterious ways. Farmer told Peter King that the earliest the new stadium could conceivably be ready is in 2018, and that the Rams, if they moved to Los Angeles in 2016, would play in the Coliseum or Rose Bowl in the interim.

It’s been no secret that Kroenke has been maneuvering to move the Rams. The city of St. Louis and the organization are reportedly $575 million apart on improvements to the outdated Edward Jones Dome, and a cynic would surmise that the franchise is deliberately making offers that local officials are more than inclined to refuse.

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