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Originally Posted by Policy Wonk
L.A. Live doesn't empty out until well after 1:00 in the morning, even when nobody is playing. Any new stadium is going to be planned as an entertainment district rather than as a stand-alone building with acres of surface parking. It will be a destination itself.
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They certainly can't put something like that at Firestone. Definitely not with a stadium involved. Between those footprints and required parking you're not going to have much more room for anything people would want to go to.
This also ignores how areas don't generate new entertainment spending, only directs it. Why would we want to direct all this entertainment spending to Firestone and not downtown where the focus has been to liven up in the past 10-20 years?
And LA Live is pretty close to downtown LA.
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And by the time there is a SELRT, we're going to be debating the location of the next Flames arena.
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People in the SE still take the current LRT to games. These new arenas have pretty long life spans (they need to be for what they cost) so you're looking at 50+ years based on what leases the teams who built new arenas in the early 90s are signing on to. They'll at least have a transitway by then I'd hope.
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