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The city was actually favoring the Inglewood project in part because they already had a set of underperforming hotels over there, the ones at LAX.
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I believe the hotels around LAX, esp the larger ones on century blvd, actually have long had the highest booking rates among any group of hotels in LA. There were yrs when the hotels near LAX were quite full while the hotels in dtla were ghost towns.
if anything....& based on the past when getting visitors to go to dt was a hard sell....the city should have favored new sports devlpt that funnels ppl to dt instead of towards LAX. Based on what some analysts are saying about the new stadium a few miles east of the airport, some potential business & the $$$ that go with that may be lost to city coffers, if one is talking about the city of LA & not the city of inglewood....
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LOS ANGELES — America's favorite form of television entertainment, the National Football League, is returning to Hollywood after more than 20 years away. And while being back in the U.S.'s second-biggest market is certainly a boon for the league, the planned state-of-the-art stadium complex set to open in 2019 in the suburb of Inglewood where the Rams will be playing upon their return from St. Louis should also make life easier for sports broadcasters — and maybe even bring events like Comic-Con back to the entertainment capital.
The Inglewood stadium will assuredly host future Super Bowls, and is a good bet to be home to other major sporting spectacles, from college basketball's Final Four to the College Football Playoff to major international soccer matches. And L.A.'s 2024 Olympic bid will definitely benefit from having a brand-new stadium added to it, with all construction costs paid by a partnership between Rams owner Stan Kroenke and Stockbridge Capital, who own the site.
Phil Wallace, a sports columnist for influential media and politics website LA Observed and a board member of the city's 2024 Olympic bid, said having a covered stadium with the features and capabilities of the Inglewood plan (whose presentation by Kroenke and chief operating officer Kevin Demoff reportedly had other owners "blown away") might also mean major entertainment events that have nothing to do with sports could return to a city that hasn't really had a good venue for them for years.
"L.A. actually has really limited convention space," Wallace said. "I think you'll be able to have really fantastic conventions coming to Inglewood now. Maybe Comic-Con is there. That's certainly a possibility."
Wallace compared the Inglewood site to a "bigger L.A. Live," which is the entertainment district in Downtown Los Angeles that includes the Staples Center — home to the Lakers, Clippers and Kings — and the Microsoft Theater, which hosts the Emmys and the American Music Awards.
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