NEWS
September 12, 1990 | KENNETH REICH, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Raiders owner Al Davis signed a contract Tuesday to keep his professional football team in Los Angeles after reaching agreement with the Coliseum's management firm on a privately financed renovation of the historic old stadium. The announcement followed tortured negotiations over terms for keeping the team from moving to Oakland. Davis said he made the "tough" and "emotional" decision only Monday night. "You have to make a choice," Davis told reporters.
SPORTS
November 14, 1991 | KENNETH REICH, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The luxury suites that will be available in 1994 at the renovated Coliseum have gone on sale for $90,000 a year, except in the end zones where they are $70,000, the Coliseum's private managers said Wednesday. This would make the Coliseum suites among the most expensive in the NFL, but still not as high as some in Philadelphia, the New Jersey Meadowlands or suburban Boston.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 6, 1992
Coliseum Commission officials said they made no progress Wednesday in attempts to arrange financing for a $116-million renovation of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and the developer planning the renovation said it appears likely that the project will be postponed at least a year. William Robertson, the commission's president, said a proposed commission grant of $4 million to expedite planning will not be voted on until the Coliseum's private managers, the Spectacor Management Ltd.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 27, 1992
City Councilman Joel Wachs called Wednesday for an investigation by the council of the circumstances involved in the collapse of a plan by the Spectacor partnership to renovate the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum with private financing. "If this project is a bad one for private investors, then it certainly must be a bad one for the taxpayers," said Wachs, who has a resolution pending in the council opposing the use of any public money for Coliseum renovations.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 5, 1992 | KENNETH REICH, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Coliseum Commission President William Robertson warned Tuesday that the Los Angeles Raiders could move if $4 million in public funds to renovate the Coliseum is not advanced to the stadium's private managers, the Spectacor partnership.
SPORTS
August 28, 1992 | MIKE DOWNEY
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