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Carson City Council (Los Angeles) approves $1.7-billion NFL stadium

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The Carson City Council unanimously approved a privately financed stadium for the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders on Tuesday night, barely two months after the public announcement of the proposed $1.7-billion project.

"There are two things we need in California: rain … and football," Carson Mayor Albert Robles said to cheers after the 3-0 decision. "And football is coming to Carson." 

The vote continued the proposal’s breakneck pace in the competition with a rival concept in Inglewood to end the NFL’s two-decade absence from the Los Angeles area. In February, Inglewood’s City Council adopted a ballot initiative for a $1.86-billion stadium as part of a sprawling mixed-use development backed by billionaire St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke and Stockbridge Capital.

Representatives of the projects will update a committee of NFL owners on their progress Wednesday during a meeting in New York.

Supporters of the Carson project needed just eight days to collect more than 15,000 signatures in support of their ballot initiative, almost twice the number required.

Like Inglewood, Carson’s City Council had the option of adopting the initiative or scheduling a public vote later this year. The prospect of transforming a long-vacant former municipal landfill site next to the 405 Freeway into a 70,000-seat stadium proved too tempting to delay.

The ballot initiative process allowed both proposals to skip lengthy environmental reviews in a race in which time is of the essence.

 

 

Football in LA getting much closer to reality.

 

http://www.latimes.com/sports/nfl/la-sp-nfl-stadium-carson-20150422-story.html

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Wonder if this affects the Rivers situation before the draft.

 

 

Definitely, Rivers does not want to live in LA from what I've read.

 

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/apr/20/ladainian-chargers-rivers-spanos-krasovic-nfl/

 

MInd you, LT is still bitter towards the Chargers for being cut loose late in his career, but that was mostly the Bolt's GM at the time, since canned.

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Definitely, Rivers does not want to live in LA from what I've read.

 

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/apr/20/ladainian-chargers-rivers-spanos-krasovic-nfl/

 

MInd you, LT is still bitter towards the Chargers for being cut loose late in his career, but that was mostly the Bolt's GM at the time, since canned.

 

I know, I just don't know though whether this was expected anyways or if it's new to them and changes things. It doesn't guarantee the Chargers are moving.

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I know, I just don't know though whether this was expected anyways or if it's new to them and changes things. It doesn't guarantee the Chargers are moving.

 

 

True dat, for decades the NFL has used the threat of a move to LA to get cities to build new stadiums for their teams. Well now San Diego really has to be paying attention.

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