Nfl Stadium

Pasadena officials have cleared the way to begin negotiations with the NFL for bringing a professional football team to the Rose Bowl for up to five years while a new stadium is built in downtown Los Angeles. More than 100 people packed a Pasadena City Hall meeting that stretched into early Tuesday morning, many of them residents of wealthy neighborhoods surrounding the iconic 90-year-old stadium. They complained that traffic jams, trash and rowdy fan behavior would disrupt enjoyment of the Arroyo Seco by homeowners and recreational users.

About 120 people packed a Pasadena City Hall meeting Monday night to cheer or jeer city plans to allow the Rose Bowl to host professional football games for up to five years if an NFL team moves to Los Angeles. Residents of the tony neighborhoods near the iconic 90-year-old stadium say NFL games would unleash rowdy fans and cause traffic jams at the expense of homeowners and recreational users. More than 25,000 vehicles would come to the Rose Bowl on game days, according to a city study, shutting down Brookside Park, the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center, Kidspace Museum and Brookside Golf Course on game days.

A coalition of anti-poverty groups has agreed to drop a lawsuit involving the developer of a proposed NFL stadium in downtown Los Angeles, clearing the last remaining legal obstacle to the city's approval of the $1.2-billion project. Developer Anschutz Entertainment Group said Thursday that it has pledged $15 million for a low-income housing trust fund to end the litigation, which sought to invalidate a recent state law that limits legal challenges against the stadium. The settlement comes days after the deadline for filing environmental challenges to the stadium.

Love Dodger Stadium? Think it only needs some minor modernizing, just some tender loving care? Want to give it a big hug before you go to bed every night? Or are you the kind of pragmatist who believes it's had one helluva run, but it's now time for Los Angeles to have a modern stadium. To join the current millennium. Time to bring out the wrecking ball. Want answers? You're not going to get them now, at least regarding the long term. Dodgers Chief Executive Stan Kasten is focused on what he calls an aggressive off-season plan to respond to 51-year-old ballpark's most pressing current needs.

The ceremonial signing of agreements Wednesday to take the next step in landing Los Angeles an NFL team went off without a hitch even though a light breeze kept knocking over a large rendering of the hoped-for Farmers Field stadium downtown. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said the City Council's vote last week to approve the project means that Anschutz Entertainment Group negotiators can speedily move ahead with the final step - landing an NFL team for the proposed new stadium. It's also another step toward the continued revitalization of downtown, a "jewel" that still needs some polishing, the mayor said.

With the Los Angeles City Council clearing the way for AEG's Farmers Field , an NFL stadium next to Staples Center, the nation's No. 2 market and No. 1 sports league inched closer to a reunion. But with Philip Anschutz putting AEG up for sale , how does that impact the likelihood of an NFL return? And how does L.A. billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong factor into the equation? After Friday's unanimous council votes, AEG President Tim Leiweke spoke with Times NFL columnist Sam Farmer about the Farmers Field vision, and how (and when)

Patrick Soon-Shiong, the richest person in Los Angeles and a potential AEG buyer, attended the New York Giants-Carolina Panthers game Thursday night as a guest of Panthers owner Jerry Richardson. That's an interesting pairing because Richardson is the former chairman of the NFL's stadium committee, and if Soon-Shiong were to purchase AEG, he presumably would take the handoff from Philip Anschutz to push the proposed downtown L.A. stadium Farmers Field across the goal line. The Times has reported that AEG is expecting the sales price for the entertainment company to be in the range of $5 billion to $7 billion.

The Angels have not held negotiations about moving to a potential new ballpark in the City of Industry, Angels Chairman Dennis Kuhl said Thursday. The ballpark would replace a proposed NFL stadium there, according to a published report. However, the owners of the site insisted Thursday that they have not given up on the NFL. “Our commitment is on returning the NFL to Los Angeles and our focus is on building a football stadium,” Majestic Realty spokesman Ben Porritt said in a statement.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I like my football. I like my football so much that I'm not sure I want an NFL team in downtown L.A. For one thing, they'll probably just break our hearts and leave - or just leave. Just as the Rams did, lighting out for Anaheim, then St. Louis. Just as the Raiders did, toying with us until they, like the Rams, played to empty seats and finally left. And now, after a Planning Commission decision , the city will move this much closer to NFL football in downtown L.A. next week, thanks to a decision about a stadium yet to be built as home to a team yet to be named.

A $1.2-billion plan for bringing an NFL stadium to Los Angeles passed a major test Thursday, even as anti-poverty activists pressed powerful developer Anschutz Entertainment Group to make millions of dollars in additional concessions. After 10 and a half hours of review, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's appointees on the Planning Commission signed off on a set of agreements for the 72,000-seat stadium, concluding the project's economic benefits outweigh the "significant and unavoidable" impacts it will have on traffic, air quality, noise and light glare.