[DirtyFacedKid]

Somebody mentioned weeks ago that, if the ceiling were that close to the 500 seats, it would feel claustrophobic. When I was looking at purchasing my SSLs, I kind of noticed the same thing. The view from the seats I was looking at in the 500s would've caused me anxiety as the Occulus was mostly below me and I would've been so high (hahahaha) that I would never have been comfortable without a Xanax.

Looks like the reality matches the VR. Glad I chose the 300s, although I understand the 500s work best for others - not knocking that AT ALL. My concern was mostly relegated to my mental issues.

[aeneas1]

[St. Loser Fan]

Somebody mentioned weeks ago that, if the ceiling were that close to the 500 seats, it would feel claustrophobic. When I was looking at purchasing my SSLs, I kind of noticed the same thing. The view from the seats I was looking at in the 500s would've caused me anxiety as the Occulus was mostly below me and I would've been so high (hahahaha) that I would never have been comfortable without a Xanax.

Looks like the reality matches the VR. Glad I chose the 300s, although I understand the 500s work best for others - not knocking that AT ALL. My concern was mostly relegated to my mental issues.

I think you're worrying too much.

First the roof will be a semi transparent material that let all sorts of light through. This won't be a solid roof like the Edward Jones Dump. This will help a lot with reducing or eliminating the closed in feeling.

Secondly the upper deck is a bowl with sections open at the end. It won't be like Lucas Oil Field in Indianapolis and some hockey/basketball arenas that are squared off with corners. The Minnesota Wild and Nashville Predators have those types of upper decks and if you're in those corners it sucks.

[St. Loser Fan]

Behind a paywall for some.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the ... 1568376042

Inside the NFL’s $5 Billion Bet to Make Football Work in Los Angeles
Stan Kroenke and the Rams spent an unprecedented fortune on a stadium that will open next season inside a complex that could cost upwards of $10 billion
NICK AGRO FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Have you ever faced the prospect of spending $1 billion, maybe $2 billion on something—and then decided to shell out $5 billion instead?

That is precisely what L.A. Rams owner Stan Kroenke is doing with Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park, the extravagant attempt to create a West Coast shrine for the NFL that is under construction here.

There’s a big cost to building a state-of-the-art football stadium these days, and this one dwarfs all others. The new L.A. stadium isn’t just the most expensive in the U.S., and perhaps the world. It’s costing more than double the next priciest NFL stadium, and far more than the industry standard. The estimated cost for the Raiders’ new stadium in Las Vegas, for example, is under $2 billion.

And every dollar spent here has gone toward tackling one of the toughest problems in American sports: making professional football work in Los Angeles.

“You have to go back to the history of: How do you solve the NFL in Los Angeles?” said Kevin Demoff, the Rams’ chief operating officer. “It was always predicated on getting the right location, the right stadium, the right teams and the right development.”

At this time next year, the first stages of this sprawling project will be complete and two teams will call the new stadium home. Kroenke’s Rams will move in from the Coliseum, while the Chargers will move from their temporary home in a soccer-stadium-turned-football-bandbox.

A recent tour of the stadium and interviews with executives show the broader ambition of the project. Kroenke is spending lavishly to create a building they felt could only exist in Los Angeles, and is already set to host events like the Super Bowl in 2022, the college football championship in 2023 and the Olympics in 2028.

The complex is far larger than just a stadium, and the approximately $5 billion spent on the stadium may wind up being less than half the total cost. When the plot is fully developed, the total expenditure could exceed $10 billion, people familiar with the matter said. It isn’t just largest sports complex around, it’s one of the largest privately financed projects in the entire country.

The breadth of the project is captured by the makeshift village that has been constructed to carry out a vision that’s far bigger than a home for some football games. Inside the 298 acres, there will be residences, a hotel, retail space, offices, a lake and more than 20 acres of public park. Temporary structures currently litter the grounds—they had to build a makeshift city in order to build this miniature city.

The primary hub is actually three separate spaces. There’s the stadium itself, which will seat 70,240 with the potential to expand to more than 100,000 for major events. Nearby, there’s also a 6,000-seat performance venue. In between, there’s a 2.5 acre plaza.

All three will be covered by a translucent plastic roof, like the one at the Minnesota Vikings’ U.S. Bank Stadium. The roof, which will angle downward from the stadium, over the plaza and to the theater, will be one of the final pieces to go up. Unlike U.S. Bank Stadium, it isn’t closed off by walls. The goal was a distinctly L.A. indoor-outdoor stadium hybrid.

And the sight of all of this going up is striking to anybody even vaguely familiar with the NFL’s blundering history here.

From 1995 through 2015, there wasn’t an NFL team in Los Angeles. The Rams and Raiders both left after the ‘94 season, creating a jarring vacuum. While the country’s richest sports league placed teams in cities like Jacksonville, it didn’t have one in the country’s second most populous city. There was no shortage of proposed sites—in City of Industry, Irwindale, Carson, downtown, even Anaheim—but nothing came of them. People began to question whether professional football was legitimately viable here.

But there was one spot the league always coveted, and the Rams’ move was approved because of their ability to maneuver for it and their vision there. That location was just a few miles from Los Angeles International Airport, in Inglewood across the street from the Forum. Kroenke, whose background is in real estate, purchased the first 60 acres between the Forum and Hollywood Park in 2014. That land was later merged with the land from the closed racetrack.

It was a speculation that paid off two years later: the Rams’ proposal was approved in 2016, and the Chargers soon followed as part of the deal. They came up with broad plans for their giant tract of land, and that began with an expensive undertaking: digging 100 feet into the ground.

“It created challenges just in terms of moving dirt,” said Jason Gannon, the project’s managing director.

The proximity to LAX had two distinct effects on the stadium’s design. It meant that they obsessed over the optics and not just how the complex would look like from the inside or ground level, but also from up above for the nearly 200,000 passengers who fly in and out of the airport every day. It also meant they had to sink the stadium deep underground to avoid interfering with the nearby air traffic.

They hauled out eight million cubic yards of earth, creating a bathtub of sorts for the stadium to settle into. The designers say this makes it easier for most fans to enter and exit. It’s possible to be as high as the stadium’s fourth or fifth level, out of eight, before being above ground.

The experience inside the stadium has a simple premise. Imagine a rooftop bar with some football going on. The concourses on the inside are designed to allow people to move freely throughout, while they enjoy the open air and sightlines into the stadium and the 70,000 square foot video board that’s as long as the field.

“If you close your eyes and saw the stadium you’d say: It has to be in Los Angeles,” Demoff says. “This couldn’t be something you’d envision anywhere else.”

Outside the stadium, there are currently vast and largely empty plots of land. But these are perhaps more important than the stadium itself. The Rams and the NFL knew for this project to make any sort of financial sense, it had to be operational year round and not just on Sundays.

Throughout the design process, that was the parallel path they had to balance. The stadium was only part of the campus. At every step, they had to consider how it would work in tandem with the office buildings, retail space and more that will eventually inhabit the adjoining land.

They already have at least one notable tenant there: the NFL, which will move NFL Media and the NFL Network headquarters there in 2021.

“This certainly could have succeeded without a stadium,” Demoff said. “I don’t know if the stadium could have succeeded without the project.”

[Hacksaw]

It's a miracle really. ESK saved us.

[Elvis]

[Elvis]

[aeneas1]

To give you some perspective on the scale, consider this: Those spindly-looking wires weigh 400 pounds per foot.

so if one snaps, fans should be fine.

[DirtyFacedKid]

so if one snaps, fans should be fine.

Only if it falls on your foot, apparently.

[Elvis]

https://la.curbed.com/2019/9/17/2087080 ... fl-stadium

First tenants for big Inglewood Hollywood Park development announced

A fancy theater, a beer garden, and a gym

By Bianca Barragan Sep 17, 2019, 12:55pm PDT


The Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas at Hollywood Park. Courtesy of Hollywood Park

The giant redevelopment of a 298-acre Inglewood property where the Los Angeles Chargers and Rams will play starting next year is also the future site of a whole neighborhood with retail, restaurants, offices, housing, and hotel rooms.

Today, the developers of the Hollywood Park development announced their first tenants: a beer garden and eatery, a fancy movie theater, and a gym. These businesses will be part of a 500,000 square-foot “district” with shopping and entertainment options.

A new 12-screen Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas is one of the announced arrivals. The theater will feature in-theater waiter services and offer a food menu and full bar. Ticket prices will range from $8 to $15, Hollywood Park owners said in a statement.

The “beer garden” and eatery will be run by Lynne Weaver, founder of the Three Weavers Brewing Company. The 20,000-square-foot space will include on-site brewing and outdoor seating, and it is slated to host live entertainment. Three Weavers opened a brewery in Inglewood about five years ago.

The gym will be the second location of the Long Beach-based Olympix Fitness. The 21,000-square-foot gym will be capped off by a rooftop swimming pool.

It’s been a big week for the Inglewood site. On Sunday, stadium owners announced that the personal finance company SoFi had purchased naming rights for the stadium. The $5 billion stadium will open in the summer of 2020 with two Taylor Swift shows.

The SoFi Stadium and the Hollywood Park project are rising on a spot where the old Hollywood Park racetrack once stood. It was demolished in 2015.