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April 30, 2013
X Games Leave Los Angeles
When the summer X Games started out in cities other than L.A., we were frustrated:WTF? This is where half those sports began. This is the action sports capital of America. This is the biggest media market for this stuff. And then, in 2003, they came, and we were like, Yes! And now? Not so much. Aft ... More >>
Blogs
April 17, 2013
The Economics of Music Festivals: Who's Getting Rich, Who's Going Broke?
By Chris Parker It's as though the sad, lamentable death of recorded music was accompanied by a kick-ass wake. Sure, label executives have had to sell their fancy homes and put their kids in public schools, but the rest of us have been feasting on a musical smorgasbord. Nothing better exemplifies ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2013
AEG Sale Off; Tim Leiweke Steps Down As L.A.-Based CEO
The for sale sign outside the door of Anschutz Entertainment Group, owner of Staples Center, LA Live and London's 02 arena, has been taken down, the company announced. Not only that but Tim Leiweke, the company's L.A.-based president and CEO and the architect of plans to build a $1.5 billion stadiu ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2013
Downtown Los Angeles To Get New High Rise -- Yet Another Marriott-Related Hotel
The local economy isn't exactly rockin.' But you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at downtown's skyline, which is starting to resemble an instant city in China. The latest high rise planned for downtown Los Angeles will break ground early next year and take the form of a Renaissance Hotel, devel ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2013
Downtown L.A.'s Farmers Field Football Stadium Shunned By NFL?
L.A.'s downtown stadium dreams might be over. That according to Yahoo! Sports, which cites "two sources" who say the NFL is just not that into Anschutz Entertainment Group's Farmers Field near Staples Center. The problem, according to the report:
Blogs
February 25, 2013
Dodgers, NFL Talk Football At Chavez Ravine
Despite big plans and grid-iron dreams in downtown Los Angeles, the NFL has held talks with the new owners of Dodger Stadium about hosting football there in the future. That according to SportsBusiness Daily, which says that, after no teams expressed interest in moving to the nation's second-larges ... More >>
Blogs
January 2, 2013
NFL Dreams For Downtown Los Angeles Fading In Face Of Team Transfer Deadline
Time might be running out for L.A.'s NFL dreams. A deadline for team owners to express interest in moving to Los Angeles is looming, but few if any have expressed serious interest in coming here. The problem might be the would-be sale of the developer of the proposed downtown stadium, Anschutz Ent ... More >>
Blogs
November 1, 2012
Downtown Stadium Dreams Advance; AEG Settles Environmental Lawsuit For $15 Mil
The would-be developer of a downtown football stadium and a group that was essentially suing it over possible environmental impacts announced today that they are making nice. Money can make foes play nice real fast, and in this case developer Anschutz Entertainment Group has agreed to help establis ... More >>
Blogs
October 23, 2012
Dodger Stadium Is Place Where NFL Will Return To L.A?
Bad news, maybe, from the NFL regarding L.A. City Hall's downtown stadium dreams. Reporting from the league's Los Angeles committee meeting, CBS Sports cites sources who say Dodger Stadium actually appears to be the number one site for an NFL team in L.A. The proposal to build a $1.5 billion stad ... More >>
Blogs
October 9, 2012
AEG's Asking Price Is $10 Billion?
The L.A. company that wants to build a stadium downtown is selling out. And if this report is true, it wants $10 billion for the whole shebang. Anschutz Entertainment Group, the locally based conglomerate owned by Denver rich guy Phil Anshutz, runs Staples Center, LA Live and the Nokia Theater, ow ... More >>
Blogs
September 28, 2012
Farmers Field NFL Stadium Approved Unanimously by L.A. Council Despite Developer's Hope to Sell
L.A.'s new, stadium dreams are another step closer to reality despite a move to sell by the developer that caught many by surprise. The City Council unanimously approved the stadium plans today. In the midst of $1.5 billion plans to build Farmers Field next to its LA Live entertainment complex and ... More >>
Blogs
September 24, 2012
'Farmers Field' Plans Pushed Forward by L.A. City Council, Despite AEG Sale
See also: "Farmers Field or Blade Runner Stadium?" and "Farmers Field's Fanciful Green Promise." There was never a doubt in anyone's mind that the L.A. City Council, completely obsessed with the idea of integrating an NFL stadium into the L.A. Live complex downtown, would approve the Anshcutz Enter ... More >>
Blogs
September 18, 2012
AEG, L.A. Parent of Coachella, Staples Center, For Sale
Updated at the bottom: AEG confirms that it's looking to sell. L.A. based Anschutz Entertainment Group, the downtown powerhouse behind Staples Center, LA Live, the proposed Farmers Field football stadium, and the world's second-largest concert promoter, Live Nation, might be for sale. Several outl ... More >>
Blogs
April 24, 2012
Farmers Field NFL Stadium Downtown Could Be Slowed By Serious Legal Challenge
If you were a gamblin' man, and a good one at that, you'd probably put your money on Farmers Field getting built, or at least getting every approval it needs by the soft-spine L.A. City Council. The owner of Staples Center and LA Live, Anschutz Entertainment Group, has steamrolled over City Hall, s ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2012
Downtown L.A. Stadium Developers Need Bigger Play For NFL Team
This week backers of a downtown NFL stadium will roll out a $27 million environmental impact report that will undoubtedly tell us how good this venue will be for Planet Angeles. Fair enough, but a new report over the weekend casts some doubt on the grand designs of Anschutz Entertainment Group, the ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2012
Marriott Hotels to Be Erected Across From L.A. Live -- and Subsidized by Taxpayers
The new Courtyard and Residence Inns (right) will sit directly across from two more Marriott hotels.A double Marriott hotel project that will occupy the lot across from L.A. Live just got a huge boost from you, the Los Angeles taxpayer. You have the L.A. City Council -- and downtown Councilw ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2011
NFL Team NOT Coming to L.A. Next Season: That Conflicts With Plans, Demands of Would-be Downtown Stadium Developer AEG
We call it Maxi Pad Stadium: It's got wings.Looks like the NFL threw a monkey wrench into plans to build a stadium in downtown L.A. League commissioner Roger Goodell pretty much said no yesterday to the idea of a franchise coming to town for next fall. " ... Next season is too soon to put a ... More >>
Blogs
December 7, 2011
NFL Stadium Along L.A. River a Better Idea Than Farmers Field-Convention Center Proposal?
AEGAn artist's rendering of Farmers Field.LA Neighbors United, the group founded by City Controller hopeful Cary Brazeman, suggests in a letter to top city officials this week that alternatives to the downtown NFL stadium proposal have not at all been taken seriously. The group wonders aloud ... More >>
Blogs
September 27, 2011
Downtown L.A. Stadium Plan Gets Fast-Track Okay From Gov. Jerry Brown
Farmers FieldBrown signs.Gov. Jerry Brown granted the wish of Anschutz Entertainment Group, the people behind Staples Center, by granting it "fast track" status for its downtown stadium plans. Brown signed the bill that would allow AEG to take any legal challenges to its environmental impact ... More >>
Blogs
September 6, 2011
NFL Stadium Plan Downtown Sees Some Neighborhood Opposition From Resident Gina Zapanta And Other Locals and Businesses
Dennis RomeroCheers for Farmers Field.Updated at the bottom with endorsements today for the stadium plan. First posted at 4:56 p.m. For the first time that we know of organized community opposition to the downtown L.A. stadium plan has cropped up. It comes to us in the form of a letter sent ... More >>
Blogs
August 9, 2011
Farmers Field Downtown Stadium Deal Approved by L.A. City Council
Dennis RomeroWoot-woot.With reporting from Simone Wilson. The downtown stadium dreams of Anschutz Entertainment Group, the owners of Staples Center and LA Live, are coming true one spineless bureaucrat at a time. The City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a deal, negotiated mostly beh ... More >>
Blogs
August 4, 2011
Downtown Stadium Deal Approved by Committee: Neighborhood Group Thinks Too Much of Your Cash is Being Left on The Table
An artist's vision of Farmer's Field.A city ad-hoc committee that met mostly behind closed doors voted 4-0 this week to green light a deal to build a new, $1.5 billion NFL stadium (with some Convention Center redevelopment thrown in) downtown next to LA Live and Staples Center. The owner of ... More >>
Blogs
August 2, 2011
NYC Thinks L.A. Wants to Be 'Manhattanized'
NYC wannabe?Well! This is insulting. And so very in line with New York media's ridiculous attempts to pin down Los Angeles after spending one night in a downtown hotel with a notepad and a smog mask. TIME Magazine runs a big out-of-touch feature today on the alleged "Manhattanization" of dow ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2011
NFL Stadium Hearing at L.A. City Hall Draws Hundreds of Football, AEG Lovers; Answers Few Questions
AEGWhen LA Weekly reporter David Futch showed up at L.A. City Hall this morning for a hearing on Anschutz Entertainment Group's proposed L.A. football stadium, he thought he was in for just another L.A. City Council meeting. What Futch failed to realize is that, when one attends a meeting on ... More >>
Blogs
July 20, 2011
NFL Stadium Downtown Could Generate $41 Million a Year in Tax Revenue: LA Neighbors United Wants Cash Guarantee For Citizens
Go, tax revenue.Are you ready for some ... tax revenue. Yeah, we're talkin' Monday night tax revenue, Sunday afternoon tax revenue, tax revenue all year 'round. That according to Anschutz Entertainment Group, the people who run Staples Center and who want to install an NFL stadium atop cit ... More >>
Blogs
July 13, 2011
Dodger Stadium to be Moved Downtown? Report Says MLB Talking to AEG About Building New L.A. Ballpark
A relic?Update: MLB reportedly denies this, as does AEG. Details at the bottom. A baseball stadium in downtown Los Angeles? Built by the folks who own Staples Center? Whew. This Frank McCourt mess has really shaken things up. Because the loathed Dodgers owner is the landlord at Dodger Stadi ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2011
NFL Stadium Deal Could Allow Developer AEG to Use More Land For LA Live
Cheerleaders at AEG's proposed Farmer's Field site.Tim Leiweke, chief of Anschutz Entertainment Group and its well known local venues such as Staples Center and LA Live, has said it until he's almost blue in the face. He's nearly had a few read-my-lips moments. Not a cent of taxpayer money w ... More >>
Blogs
April 18, 2011
Downtown Stadium Deal With L.A. Could Take One Year (at Least), Says City Hall Legislative Guru Gerry Miller
NFLAre you ready for some ... waiting?This winter the downtown stadium plan was plowing ahead like Republicans at a tax-break buffet. Well, so much for the fast track. This is, as you're well aware, the most-business-friendly city in the world (we kid). And well, L.A.'s chief legislative ana ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2011
NFL Stadium Proposed For Downtown L.A. Gets YouTube Mash-Up Treatment
L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa supports a downtown stadium.Yeah, this was bound to happen. The proposal to build an NFL stadium downtown now has its own YouTube video mash-up, courtesy of someone named MrNachoTax. We spotted the video (after the jump) after it was posted earlier this month. ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2011
Farmers Field, Downtown L.A.'s Proposed NFL Stadium, Gets Staples Center's Architects, Gensler
Gensler's vision.The people who intend to build an NFL stadium in downtown L.A. have chosen an architect for the project, Gensler. Anschutz Entertainment Group went with the firm that also designed its neighboring development downtown, Staples Center. The stadium, which doesn't have the ble ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2011
Downtown L.A. NFL Stadium Could Mean $86 Million a Year in Bond Payments For City: Who Pays?
Farmers Field.How much will that proposed downtown stadium really cost the taxpayers of L.A? It a question that keeps coming up, exasperatingly so for Anschutz Entertainment Group, the company that wants to do this deal atop the L.A. Convention Center's aging West Hall. AEG execs have said ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2011
Farmers Field: LA Neighbors United Takes Out Full-Page 'Times' Ad to Question Wisdom of Downtown L.A. NFL Stadium Plans
Dennis RomeroMayor Villaraigosa is all for Farmers Field.Update: AEG says it's being straight-up, after the jump. A full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday asks why City Hall should support a proposed downtown NFL stadium at a time when so many of L.A.'s services have been cut becau ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2011
'Los Angeles Stadium' Developer John Semcken Says NFL Naming Rights Will Surpass AEG's Downtown Deal With Farmers
Majestic RealityLos Angeles Stadium in Industry.While much of the media spotlight has illuminated a fantastic, last-minute effort by the owners of Staples Center to build an NFL stadium next to LA Live downtown, Majestic Realty has been quietly moving forward with its own "Los Angeles Stadium ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2011
Mayor Villaraigosa Makes Pitch For AEG Corp's Football Stadium Bid Even Before City Has Seen Any Actual Plans
Mayor V. has your best corporate interests in mind.The mayor of L.A. and its City Council are supposed to be a judge and jury for the people when it comes to development, city services and other issues facing this vast metropolis. But sometimes you wouldn't know it. Mayor Antonio Villaraigos ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2011
'Farmers Field' Chosen as $700 Million Name of L.A. Football Stadium
We can just see it now: A charming Farmers Field mock-upUpdated with more juice on the deal. Reporting by Dennis Romero. See also: "Farmers Field: How to Sell a City on a Football Stadium (on its Property)." Here it is, Los Angeles: The name of your future NFL stadium. Ready your inner hick, ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2011
L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa Was Made Aware Of Downtown NFL Stadium Plans In March, 2009
One vision for a downtown NFL stadium.Why are we not surprised? Turns out a memo to L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa proves that he was made aware of a downtown stadium proposal as early as March 2009. Journalist Ron Kaye, who unearthed the document, is calling it "Antonio's Dirty Little Secre ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2010
Downtown L.A. Stadium Design Expected In January
Architecturual firm Gensler's vision for a downtown stadiumAs the people behind Staples Center unleashed three visions for a proposed new NFL stadium downtown, they said that the design for the venue would be chosen in January. Anschutz Entertainment Group's downtown stadium is on the fast t ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2010
Three Visions For Proposed NFL Stadium In Downtown L.A. Unleashed Today
GenslerAn architect's rendering of a downtown NFL stadiumBy Dennis Romero and Gene Maddaus Updated with sketches and remarks from the unveiling at 6:05 p.m. As the owners of Staples Center were poised to unleash three architectural firms' distinct visions of what a proposed downtown stadium mig ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2010
Three Architectural Visions For Proposed Downtown Los Angeles Stadium To Be Unveiled Wednesday
It could happen.L.A. will have a look at what could be its next football stadium when the folks who own Staples Center unveil the venue's three architectural finalists Wednesday. Tim Leiweke, the chief of Staples parent Anschutz Entertainment Group, has said he would like to invest $1 billio ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2010
Designs For NFL Stadium In Downtown L.A. Are On Staples Center Chief Tim Leiweke's Desk
ZeregaStaples Center could get a big baby brother.It took the city of Los Angeles several years to get its final medical marijuana dispensary law on the books. When the City Council doesn't like the taste of something, like telling its friends in the pot business that they can't operate too c ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2010
Are NFL's Chargers Coming To L.A? Rumors Abound That Staples Center Owner Phil Anschutz Has Taken A Stake In The San Diego Team
Los Angeles Chargers?Updated with Earvin "Magic" Johnson's comments on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. First posted at 11:32 p.m. Tuesday. Laker legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson announced on Jimmy Kimmel Live! early Wednesday that he's teamed up with the Anschutz Entertainment Group to bring an NFL team t ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2010
Did City City Hall Just Give Staples Center A $1 Million Gift? In This Economy?
zerega via FlickrIt's a question that's been lingering, so we decided to try to answer it. If the city spent nearly $3.2 million to help Staples Center put on its Michael Jackson memorial, why did Anschutz Entertainment Group, the company that owns Staples, recently announce that it's ponying ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2010
Staples Center's Parent To Kick In $1.3 Million For Jackson Memorial
Anschutz Entertainment Group, the company that owns Staples Center, has decided to kick in $1 million for the city's $3.2 million in costs in helping the billionaire-controlled firm put on its memorial concert to honor the late Michael Jackson almost one year ago last summer. An announcement ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2010
City Attorney Drops Investigation Of Staples Center After It Kicks In Cash For Michael Jackson's Memorial
Following Anschutz Entertainment Group's announcement that it would give $1 million to the city (and $300 to the L.A. Police Foundation) to defray the city's costs related to last year's Michael Jackson memorial show at its Staples Center venue, the Los Angeles City Attorney's office stated t ... More >>
Blogs
May 27, 2010
Mayor Scores Free Lakers Tickets Without Having To Tell You Who Gave Them To Him
Fox 11/YouTubeLast month we told you about Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's "statement of economic interests," essentially an annual list of valuable gifts he has to file with the state Fair Political Practices Commission. The idea is that the people should know who is showering their ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2010
Phil Anshutz's Paper Criticizes L.A. Times Over Same-Sex Marriage Reporting
On Monday the Washington Examiner, the conservative daily newspaper owned by Staples Center magnate Phil Anschutz, called out the Los Angeles Times for its coverage of events surrounding the same-sex marriage trial in San Francisco. As the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked streaming vid ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2010
Taxpayer Seeks $3.3 Million For City From Jackson Estate
A Los Angeles resident has filed a $3.3 million claim against the estate of Michael Jackson on behalf of the city of Los Angeles to recover the taxpayer costs involved in staging the July Jackson memorial at Staples Center downtown. Attorney Jeff Grotke, who represents taxpayer Jose F. Vallej ... More >>
Blogs
December 7, 2009
City-Touted, $4 Million Benefit From Jackson Memorial Pulled From Thin Air
Sony PicturesLA Weekly obtained a series of emails that shed light on City Hall's oft-touted contention that July's Michael Jackson memorial at Staples Center downtown was a $4 million boost to area businesses. The number is important because it's often cited by those who believe it was worth it ... More >>
Blogs
December 7, 2009
Council Committees Pass Buck To City Attorney Regarding Jackon Memorial Bill (UPDATED)
Councilwoman Jan Perry has sometimes relied on the kindness of corporate strangers.[UPDATED] City leadership has been bold when it comes to pressing issues like cat declawing, so it's no surprise that two Los Angeles City Council committees on Monday took up the issue of who should cover the ... More >>
News
December 3, 2009
Los Angeles City Hall's Funny Michael Jackson Figures
Is the "millions" spent by memorial-goers on food and rooms mathematically impossible?
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