OT: AEG reveals L.A. NFL stadium designs

[dockingsched]

http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/n ... id=5924910

AEG has hired ICON Venue Group, a project management firm that worked on Denver's Invesco Field, to act as AEG's representative in the process after working with the group to build the 02 Arena in London.

Tim Romani, president of ICON Venue Group, said Wednesday the project would be built within AEG's $1 billion budget and on the proposed site, which is where the Los Angeles Convention Center's West Hall currently sits. The plan is to first tear down the West Hall, build a $350 million replacement and then begin construction on a 75,000-seat retractable roof stadium. If all goes as planned, construction on the new stadium would begin by 2012 with the stadium ready to be opened in time for the 2015 NFL season. AEG is also hoping the new stadium will host the Super Bowl in 2016, which would be the 50th anniversary of the first Super Bowl, which was held at the nearby Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

looks awesome, wonder if anything will ever actually come true. slide show with more pics if you follow the link.

[crazyeights]

As if LA needs 100,000 more people driving downtown at once.

[Hunter103]

Something about the scale there seems off. It looks too small.

[DEEP3CL]

As if LA needs 100,000 more people driving downtown at once.

Take Metro Rail homie !

[Frantik]

Something about the scale there seems off. It looks too small.

Right on! That's first thing i thought when i read this...

[Frantik]

And.... what happened to the plan for a "LOS ANGELES STADIUM" in city of Industry?? Whats going on? is there some sort of competition going on or did someone change the location?

[KingLakers]

The City Of Industry plan still exists but from what i've heard the NFl prefers the downtown stadium over the City Of Industry plan. And seriously who wants to drive 30 mins outside LA to go to a football game downtown is centrally located.

[laduane1]

I just think there will be problems and the plan will never be what it is. There is not enough room for a Lakers game. 100,000 to see a football game. Wow. That would be insane. Metro line or bus or car.

[KingLakers]

An NFL team only plays 8 games a year at its stadium usually at 10am or 1pm on Sundays most of the time and maybe Mondays and Thursdays a couple times a year and of course Sunday night at 5pm. I think the NBA and NFL can plan their schedules around each other. Maybe the Lakers wont play on Sundays as much during the NFL season. Not to mention if this stadium happens I can totally see the Lakers playing there once or twice a season. Imagine an Christmas day game in a place like that. Also the Clippers from 1984-1995 played at the sports arena which is next door to the coliseum where the Raiders played they figured out the traffic and scheduling then they can figure it out now.

[kobeaki]

As if LA needs 100,000 more people driving downtown at once.

exactly. now if they put 1 billion worth of mass transit from the valley, the westside, east los, and the lbc then im good with it...try going to a laker game in april or may, on a friday, when the doyers are playing....****, wait till the nfl are playing same day as lakers...

[kobeaki]

The City Of Industry plan still exists but from what i've heard the NFl prefers the downtown stadium over the City Of Industry plan. And seriously who wants to drive 30 mins outside LA to go to a football game downtown is centrally located.

except 90% of the drivers live closer to industry than to downtown...but you ever try to drive on the 60 on a sunday, between 57 and 605? it f-ing sucks already....

[kobeaki]

An NFL team only plays 8 games a year at its stadium usually at 10am or 1pm on Sundays most of the time and maybe Mondays and Thursdays a couple times a year and of course Sunday night at 5pm. I think the NBA and NFL can plan their schedules around each other. Maybe the Lakers wont play on Sundays as much during the NFL season. Not to mention if this stadium happens I can totally see the Lakers playing there once or twice a season. Imagine an Christmas day game in a place like that. Also the Clippers from 1984-1995 played at the sports arena which is next door to the coliseum where the Raiders played they figured out the traffic and scheduling then they can figure it out now.

i dont disagree with most of this except that in the greater los angeles metro, there over 10 million residents...in 1984-1995 there less than half that...

[notinbtnet]

Putting that stadium right there? DISASTER. The 10/110/101/5/60/710, etc are all within a few miles of that spot and traffic is already awful. Add that stadium? Hell nah. And what are they going to do with it when football isn't in season? Let's call it 15 football games a year MAX if you factor in playoffs and preseason and the expanded 18 game schedule. You already have Staples Center, Nokia Theater, etc for all the other events that need to be held. You are going to add a 100,000 seat football stadium on top of that. No thanks.

[Anklebreaker702]

Those proposals look off the chart

[Wavy Q]

I'm not going to get fickle about stadium placement when we haven't had a football team in 20 years

[H00PDREAMS]

is it me but in the picture it appears the 110 has been moved over a bit. My goodness downtown would be a mess. The this new stadium , staple center, the coliseum, usc, dodger stadium all in the same general area. Jeesh I would hate to live there.

Imagine all the poor souls driving west to get there from east LA...ugh!

If there was a way to force people to take public transport in this area. Offer up cheap bus, train fair, eliminate parking, maybe shuttle buses from OC to the stadium... Maybe it might work!

[Kilroy]

Only the HKS proposal looks to be the right scale...

I have 2 questions actually...
Why do you need a retractable roof stadium in LA? It doesn't even rain that hard there... Only once every few years when there's an el nino...

And just like everyone else, unless you have a plan for traffic, the city is going to tie up development until everyone looses interest.

The thing is though, once the stadium is built and revenue starts rolling in, there should be enough tax money to think about widening the freeways...

What they should do is have special metrolink express trains from all the bigger stations just for the games... Maybe even special fares.

I kind of like having it down town... Industry isn't any easier to get to during traffic times anyway, and having worked blocks from Staples for years, the revitalization of downtown is pretty exciting actually.

For those wondering what the stadium would be used for post season, it'd be used just like every other major stadium... Massive concerts, Soccer, special College games, etc... It wouldn't be idle.

But neither would the traffic problems. I don't think it would just be a Sunday issue.

[KingLakers]

The retractable roof is for other convention events and for March Madness also they can close the roof during a concert when it rains. You guys cant lump together Dodgers, Kings, Lakes and Clippers games very rarely will there be a day when the Lakers, Dodgers, Kings and the NFL team will all play on the same day. For example I doubt there will be anymore Lakers, Kings double header days . Traffic I think will only get bad on NFL game days. I think the one positive that will come out of this is that we LA people will appreciate our Metro system more the earliest this stadium is planned to be opened is for the 2015 NFL season right now there are several Metro extensions being planned or are under construction right now that could be finished by 2015 or maybe 5 or so yrs after. Our cars wont be the only way we can get to this stadium.

[Penberthy]

I just think there will be problems and the plan will never be what it is. There is not enough room for a Lakers game. 100,000 to see a football game. Wow. That would be insane. Metro line or bus or car.

there are 8 nfl home games per year, i think the schedule makers could manage not to have the lakers play on those 8 days.

[KingLakers]

The stadium wil have about 70,000 seats not 100,000. I think if this plan happens I think whichever team moves to LA will think of creative ways to get people to the game without having them use their cars. For example maybe for people who take the metro to downtown for games maybe they will have busses that take people to the game after they get off the metro it could be free for anybody who has bought tickets to the game. There are 5 metro stations that are within like 3 miles of the proposed stadium site.