Category Archives: NFL Stadium

Here’s Why It Will Cost $1 Billion in Taxpayer Subsidies to Build Hotel Rooms for the Convention Center and Farmers Field

Posted on June 13, 2012 by

On Tuesday in committee, Councilman Bill Rosendahl passionately raised a lot of questions about why it was necessary to give a $67.3 million subsidy to developers of twin Marriott hotels near LA Live where there already is two more luxurious … Continue reading →

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Millions of Tax Dollars to Billionaires: The LA Way — Two More LA Live Hotels To Get Massive Tax Subsidies

Posted on June 12, 2012 by

The Marriott Hotel chain, the nation’s second largest, has a market capitalization of $12.17 billion and makes a profit of $1.6 billion on revenues of more than $14 billion. Family members, descendants of founder J.W. Marriott, own 23 percent of the … Continue reading →

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Today’s LA Dirty Deal: Gifting the Coliseum to USC

Posted on May 2, 2012 by

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the daily swindles of L.A. residents and taxpayers — but there’s still a few hours to protest, maybe even delay, your city, county and state officials giving away one of LA’s most prized … Continue reading →

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The Hideous Ugliness of the Coliseum Deal — This Is As Dirty and Corrupt As It Gets Even in Chinatown

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

THE REBUILT COLISEUM PLAN THEY WON’T EVEN LOOK AT Let’s see if we got the facts straight: For 30 years, the LA Coliseum Commission made up of city, county and state elected officials and their appointees chased away two NFL … Continue reading →

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Leiweke Demands LA’s Unconditional Surrender or Face the Big Chill of an ‘Economic Nuclear Winter for This City’

Posted on April 6, 2012 by

EDITOR’S NOTE: Perhaps Tim Leiweke’s NFL team — if he gets one — should be called the “Angelenos” as the email blast he sent out announcing release of the draft EIR promises his football stadium will  benefit “Angelenos 365 days … Continue reading →

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USC and the Coliseum: A Dirty Back-Room Deal that Insults the Public and Violates the Law

Posted on January 10, 2012 by

It says a lot about the complete and utter failure of the Coliseum Commission that the first five items on its agenda for its monthly meeting Wednesday are closed door items about threats of lawsuits against involving “one of more … Continue reading →

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Let the Public Be Damned: Privatizing the Historic Coliseum for USC’s Benefit

Posted on December 21, 2011 by

It is hard to believe it was almost four years ago that the Coliseum Commission — guilty of long-term mismanagement but not yet touched by one ugly scandal after another — proudly announced it had “signed a deal that will … Continue reading →

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The Unanswered Questions about AEG’s NFL Stadium Plan — Will City Hall Ask Them?

Posted on December 19, 2011 by

By KEVIN JAMES, Candidate for L.A. Mayor in the L.A. Business Journal In 2010, word leaked out that Anschutz Entertainment Group and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa were courting the NFL. The league that dashed in 1995 and remains elusive today was, as … Continue reading →

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What’s Missing from AEG’s Maxi-Pad Stadium Deal: Study of Alternatives That Might Actually Succeed

Posted on December 7, 2011 by

With City Council members set Thursday to rubber stamp yet another version of AEG’s ever-changing designs (this one mocked as the Maxi-pad version) for its downtown NFL stadium, City Controller candidate Cary Brazeman has proposed a road map for exploring … Continue reading →

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The NFL Calls the Plays for AEG’s Fumbled Downtown Stadium Deal

Posted on November 21, 2011 by

Of all the strange plot twists, audacious power plays, ever-changing story line, the strangest one of all is to see the National Football League taking charge of deciding the who, what, where and when of bringing pro football back to … Continue reading →

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