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Professional sports are set to make a return to Inglewood, a city southwest of downtown Los Angeles that hasn't hosted a professional team since the National Basketball Association's Lakers and the National Hockey League's Kings vacated The Forum in 1999. Located on the site of the former Hollywood Park Racetrack, a new stadium will provide a home for the Los Angeles Rams National Football League team upon their impending relocation from St. Louis.
The $2.66 billion venue forms an integral part of the City of Champions Revitalization Initiative — a partnership between Stockbridge Capital, Wilson Meany, and Rams owner Stan Kroenke — aiming to settle 2,500 residential units, nearly 900,000 square feet of retail, almost 800,000 square feet of office space, a 300-room hotel, and 25 acres of parks on the racetrack lands.
Offering up 70,240 seats and accommodating 100,000 people with standing room, the HKS Architects-designed stadium will rise 53 metres (175 feet) above the ground. Its sweeping roof will be composed of metal and Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE), a high-strength, durable, and lightweight plastic with similar transparency properties to glass.
As construction begins on the 298-acre complex, Metro Rail is entertaining the possibility of an LRT station serving the site. When completed in 2019, the stadium may be shared with the rival San Diego Chargers. The Chargers have been attempting to build their own stadium, but if no deal is reached, the team will move to the LA area for the 2017 season according to a recent agreement in principle.
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