FarmersField.com: Expanding the Los Angeles Convention Center to improve the L.A. economy

[prodiggy13]

This is the dumbest planed stadium, why do people want a NFL stadium downtown? You dumb fucks do understand no one builds NFL stadiums downtown anymore right? There's just so many things that make this plan stupid.

smh..

[AiruhnG]

@prodiggy13 Because the stadium will be more than just a football stadium. It will be part of the convention center, and they'll be able rent out the space. having the space in DT will allow for more cash flow to other business. Super bowl, Pac12 champ game, UFC, Boxing, Final Four, Comic Con, football, and soccer. With all the hotels, DT makes better business sense to have it their. At Meadowland Stadium I here nothing happening there other than football a few months of the year.

[prodiggy13]

@AiruhnG

@AiruhnG

Yeah, so you want tiny ass 60,000 seat stadium where smug celebrities go to sporting events not because they are true fans but for the hell leaving the true fans at the top. in Downtown where the traffic is hell and you have to park underground and tail gate with no sun over Ed Roski's NFL plan????

Go to a Laker game (a interesting one) then you tell me if you what the stadium DOWNTOWN WHERE NO ONE BUILDS THEM ANYMORE.

[AiruhnG]

@prodiggy13 The proposed stadium won't have 60,000 seats like you claim but 72,000 seats. Besides the final design of the stadium hasn't even been approved, so no one really knows how it will look, or how many seats it will have. Celebrities will opt for the suites and luxury boxes. The football environment is different from basketball. 72,000 seats runs about above average for an NFL stadium. Soldier field being the smallest with 61,500 seats.

[AiruhnG]

@prodiggy13 When you're talking about stadiums you need to have more in mind than just football. And when it comes to parking I actually would prefer the 32,000 spaces that DT already has. Besides DT has way better public transpiration than the city of industry. You can get to DT from any where in LA county in less than 30min. DT has the Subway, Metro buses, metro rail, and Metro-link. giving people the choice to use mass trans is better for the environment.

[AiruhnG]

@prodiggy13 going and coming from industry would be just has bad as leaving the coliseum, Rose Bowl, and Staples Center after USC, UCLA, and Laker games. And as for DT I'm usually home by the time most people get on the fwy thanks to the subway (i do own a car). The Point is putting football aside a DT stadium makes better business sense. It's better for the local community in the form the added revenue and sales tax dollars.

[AiruhnG]

@prodiggy13 There are more Pros than Cons in a DT stadium, and tailgating is a small sacrifice to make in the big picture of the continued growth and economical development of Los Angeles. Plus people can still tailgate at USC and UCLA games. The stadium needs to be more than just fooball. Football is only four-half months of the year. Having it in industry with nothing around is a waste of money making opportunities. Besides LA passed to proceed with the plans and the state might do the same.

[AiruhnG]

@prodiggy13 and I don't think 60,000 seats is tiny from what you say. Dodger stadium holds 56,000 people and i always get a kick on how huge the place looks.

[AiruhnG]

@prodiggy13 and the reason people don't build stadiums DT anymore is because the lack of space. Most DT civic centers are already developed and moving or destroying buildings adds to the cost. But I can assure you given the opportunity most develops and team owners would love to be closer to the DT cities. The State is expediting plans this week and a vote will take place by Friday. AEG is getting better treatment than Roski did. It seems like Farmer Field is going to happen like it or not.

[prodiggy13]

@AiruhnG

Roski's plan already passed the economic impact reports and so on, it's already ahead of the AEG plan,

Plus I think the Roski one is just much better for the fact it's bigger, cheaper (no public bonds), and able to hold two NFL teams. Having it industry is not a waste they will build things around the stadium have you not seen the pictures showing how they plan to make their own bigger version of L.A. Live.

(have you been to a Laker game?)

[AiruhnG]

@prodiggy13 I think this as been in the works or sometime. Philip Anschutz of AEG is good friends with Stan Kroenke owner of the Rams. The Rams lease ends in 2015 the same time that Farmers Field will be done and ready. if all goes to plan I think the Rams will be coming back home to LA. Rams never left because the lack of fan support. they left because the whore Georgia Frontiere. Rams in Farmers Field 2015! it's going to happen.

[AiruhnG]

@prodiggy13 Yeah I have... I go to a handful of Laker games each year. The State assembly just passed the bill 292 today to expedite plans. the vote was 59-13 it is predicted that the house senate will also pass it too. The Public bonds will be paid back with interest, so that means no tax money and the city makes a profit. Roski hasn't gotten in play from the NFL owners, and It seems that the NFL and Roger Goodell are in favor of the LA project.

[AiruhnG]

@prodiggy13 But like I said in a previous comment to you that I take the subway to avoid the traffic when I go see the Lakers play. More people should do it. By the time people get into their cars and on the freeway I'm already home. Having a stadium with limited of parking would force people into taking the train which would help the air quality and environment of this awesome city.

[AiruhnG]

@prodiggy13 and the DT stadium location wise is the better choice. DT is in the middle and more accessible to west LA, the valley, the harbor cities, east LA, and the San Gabriel valley. I can care less about riverside county and O.C.. It just seem like you can hold more events with a stadium that can have a roof than an open air stadium. AEG has more backing up the project I'm almost 100% sure this will get done before Roski's plans does.

[prodiggy13]

@AiruhnG

Doubt it, but the DY is getting a lot of attention by ESPN for being their landlords of course. BTW if you put a stadium in downtown stadium and the team is not the Raiders then it will not get as much support IMO.

And I don't want the Raiders.

(LOL, are you kidding me, have you been the constuction site, it's small.)

[AiruhnG]

@prodiggy13 If the Rams come back to LA I think you'll see even more support than you would see from the Raiders being here. The Rams were here since the 1940's and have a bigger fan base in LA. Besides it has been 16 years since the teams left. That means there is a whole new Generation in LA that never saw a pro FB game in LA. This Gen wants to support a team, and they don't really care where it comes from.

[AiruhnG]

@prodiggy13 The industry stadium does look impressive, but I really don't see people driving down to industry on a Friday night for example. DT already has a thriving night life with new apartments being built. people can walk to the stadium instead of getting in their cars and waiting in traffic on the 60fwy. 46,000 people already live in DT with a median income of $86,000, and a median age of 33 years old. That's an awesome demographic already in place with disposable income.

[AiruhnG]

@prodiggy13 Yeah I don't want the Raiders either. I have been their and i do see a 70,000 seat stadium being built on that site. I don't know what you're doubting based on what I wrote but see them building anything less than a 65,000 + low 70,000 seat stadium. haha you can't make the claim about AEG being the landlord thing when ESPN's HQ is in north Carolina and has no affliction to AEG. when Staple was being built a lot of people thought it would work. And 11 years later that area is amazing

[AiruhnG]

@prodiggy13 and the last thing i'll say about this is that the NFL is paying way more interest in AEG's plans than they are at Roski's plan. Roski is ready to break ground yet he has become plan B if AEG can't get it done. It maybe a smaller location, but I would get use to the idea, because the stadium is going to be in DT LA. there is way more support for it. The people of industry protested the site because they didn't want the noise and traffic.

[RamsFanSince1983]

Bring Back The Los Angeles Rams

[drewtheripper]

I can't wait. LA is already close to being the most perfect city ever established. All we are missing is a state of the art football stadium team, and convention center. AEG can kill three birds with a stone. Im excited.

[ImpressiveJEFF]

Thats bullshit!