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It's Official: Farmers Field Approved by L.A. City Council

It was a unanimous "yes" for the $1.2 billion project.

The proposed venue, set to be the home of L.A.'s future NFL franchise -- or franchises -- was approved Friday by the Los Angeles City Council.


The vote was 12 to 0 in favor of the Farmers Field Environmental Impact Report, setting the stage for the construction of a 72,000-seat stadium next to Staples Center and the adjacent L.A. Live entertainment complex.

The venue has an estimated construction cost of $1.2 billion, toward which Farmers Insurance Group will contribute $700 million in exchange for a 30-year naming rights deal.

Its construction will require the demolition of the West Hall of the L.A. Convention Center, requiring it to be rebuilt farther south for $350,000. Its proposed redesign has been cited for "serious concerns" by a panel of high-profile architects advising Mayor Antonio Villairagosa, according to the Daily News.


Casey Wasserman, the sports executive who owned the Arena Football League's former L.A. Avengers, spearheaded the Farmers Field project along Tim Leiweke, president of the Anschutz Entertainment Group, co-owners of L.A. Live.

“Today the Los Angeles City Council and my friends at AEG, led by Tim Leiweke, brought us one step closer to seeing an NFL team in Los Angeles," said Wasserman, grandson of the late MCA honcho Lew Wasserman, in a statement.

"I applaud Mayor Villaraigosa, whose fortitude shaped this idea from my initial napkin concept into a statewide effort to bring football to the second-largest market in the country," he said.


Now that the city has approved its construction, the Farmers Field developers are anticipating a completion date "by 2016."

One and possibly two L.A. NFL teams could play there -- the city's first since it lost the Rams to St. Louis and the Raiders to Oakland in 1994.

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Maybe the Trojans can move out of the shithole that is the Collesium.

So one has to walk past Staples Center to get to the new stadium?

Traffic Jam City....

EPJr wrote:Its construction will require the demolition of the West Hall of the L.A. Convention Center, requiring it to be rebuilt farther south for $350,000. Its proposed redesign has been cited for "serious concerns" by a panel of high-profile architects advising Mayor Antonio Villairagosa, according to the Daily News.

I'm going to guess they forgot a couple zeros there...

AZGrizFan wrote:

EPJr wrote:Its construction will require the demolition of the West Hall of the L.A. Convention Center, requiring it to be rebuilt farther south for $350,000. Its proposed redesign has been cited for "serious concerns" by a panel of high-profile architects advising Mayor Antonio Villairagosa, according to the Daily News.

I'm going to guess they forgot a couple zeros there...

Yeah - 350K will get you a sidewalk

dbackjon wrote:

AZGrizFan wrote:
I'm going to guess they forgot a couple zeros there...

Yeah - 350K will get you a sidewalk

$350k won't get you the architectural drawings.

Um, EP, if it didn't work the first time, why would it work the second time? The Lightning Bolts barely lasted a year in LA with the Rams there. I can't see BOTH moving back. The Rams, perhaps (to screw with the late Georgia Frontierre), because they were there first. I'd rather see the Cardinals back in StL (with different owners), anyway.