Edward Roski Jr.

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 >>

Farmers Field or Blade Runner Stadium?

The downtown NFL arena deal allows a sea of billboards, congestion and millions in public costs

How Lobbyist John Ek Gets His Way at City Hall

Know Your Rich People, Los Angeles: A List of SoCal's 20 Billionaires

Richboy Slim, worth $74 billion.​Forbes' annual list of "The World's Billionaires" was released this week, and (gasp) a Mexican, Carlos Slim Helu, took the top spot for the second time in a row. The U.S. grip on the billionaire game, and California's too, has been slipping even as the ultra-r ... More >>

'Farmers Field' Chosen as $700 Million Name of L.A. Football Stadium

We can just see it now: A charming Farmers Field mock-up​Updated 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 >>

Los Angeles Farmers Stadium? L.A.'s Proposed NFL Venue Downtown Might Already Have Naming-Rights Deal

FoxCletus would like L.A. Farmers Stadium.​Los Angeles has been called many things - douchetown, Mexico City II, land of the celebutard. But a heartland of farming it is not. So you have to hand it to the folks at Anschutz Entertainment Group, the people behind Staples Center and the proposal ... More >>

Should The 'Raider Nation' Return To L.A. If We Get A New Stadium?

A member of the Raider Nation.​All this talk of the NFL returning to Los Angeles -- with two apparently viable bids for new area stadiums on the table -- has some fans giddy about the prospect of possibly bringing the San Diego Chargers or perhaps the Minnesota Vikings to town. So giddy, in f ... More >>

(Video) Metrodome Roof Collapse In Minneapolis Could Raise Hopes For NFL's Vikings Los Angeles

APSnow comes down, L.A.'s NFL hopes are lifted.​That blast of snow that brought down parts of the Metrodome's roof in Minneapolis could bring some new rays of hope to sunny L.A.'s chances of getting a new NFL team. Turns out it's not the first time snow has come through the roof of the venue, ... More >>

Ron Kaye Wants L.A. To Vote On A Measure That Would Ensure Not One Taxpayer Dollar Goes Toward NFL Stadium Downtown

Ron Kaye wants ironclad, no-public-money deal for NFL stadium.​It looks more and more like L.A. is going to get an NFL stadium. Ed Roski's Majestic Realty has a plan for one in the city of Industry. Staples Center boss Tim Leiweke has offered some ideas of his own, including a possible venue a ... More >>

Vote For One: An NFL Stadium Downtown Near Staples Center, Or One In The San Gabriel Valley, In The City Of Industry

Majestic RealityAn artists rendering of the Industry NFL stadium.​It's not like you have much of a choice: Two of Southern California's most-powerful developers will duke it out until the best man wins. But if you did have the choice, what would you pick: An NFL stadium at the Convention Cent ... More >>

Staples Center Chief Tim Leiweke Defends Prospective NFL Stadium Downtown As A Boon To Taxpayers

NFL next door to Staples Center?​How close is L.A. to getting a new NFL stadium? Tim Leiweke, CEO of Anschutz Entertainment Group, the Staples Center-owning company that might or might not build a billion-dollar football venue downtown, says it's at least three years off. Still, there's been ... More >>

Los Angeles Has New NFL Stadium ... Website

Majestic RealtyWould an NFL stadium in Industry be too far away?​We might not have a new NFL stadium or even a team to fill it, but Los Angeles has a new NFL stadium website. In what seems to us to be an increasingly competitive battle over who will get a stadium built -- Ed Roski's Majestic ... More >>

Ed Roski's Proposed 'Los Angeles Stadium' Good For World Cup Soccer As Well As NFL

gnews pics via FlickrIs L.A. ready for another World Cup?​The developer of a proposed NFL stadium in the City of Industry has just sweetened the pot: The venue will be World Cup soccer compatible! And the crowd (of three people) goes wild. Developer Ed Roski's Majestic Reality says the San Ga ... More >>

Tim Leiweke, Staples Center's Boss, Wants To Turn Part Of Los Angeles Convention Center Into NFL Stadium

L.A. conventioneers, soon to be under AEG's supervision?​Touche, Ed Roski. Yesterday the developer said his proposed NFL stadium in the City of Industry could also double as a World Cup venue. (To which we said all three soccer fans in L.A. were elated). Well, today the other shoe dropped. An ... More >>

Staples Center's Owner Lobbies Public To Support Downtown NFL Stadium Idea

LA Live.​The operators of Staples Center and LA Live are lobbying to get public support behind the idea of an NFL football stadium adjacent to those South Park properties, according to LAObserved. An email blast went out to some Staples Center patrons asking them to support a downtown stadium ... More >>

L.A. Could Get NFL Team By Next Year

An artist's rendering of a stadium proposed in Industry.​Los Angeles could see the return of an NFL football team by next year if the developer of a proposed stadium in Industry has his way. "I strongly believe an NFL franchise will play in Los Angeles for the 2011 season," John Semcken of Ma ... More >>

And The NFL Stadium Goes To ... Industry?

It seemed like only yesterday that community leaders were still debating about where a prospective new NFL stadium would go -- Carson, Exposition Park (at a refurbished Coliseum) or the San Gabriel Valley's far-out city of Industry. The governor just cast a big vote for the latter. Today he signed ... More >>

Ed Roski Jr. Sells 'Los Angeles Stadium' to the O.C.

The San Gabriel Valley Trib's James Wagner reports on the new tone of self-confidence (or hubris) displayed by mega-developer Ed Roski Jr. and representatives of his Majestic Realty Company. Roski's long political fight to build a 75,000-seat sports stadium/retail complex in the City of Industry see ... More >>

Proposed City of Industry Stadium Becomes Political Football

Proposed Industry Stadium ​​Until now, the civic imbroglio involving super-developer Ed Roski's plan to build a 600-acre football stadium and retail complex at the crossroads of the 60 and 57 freeways has been confined to local belligerents. Namely, Roski's Majestic Realty company, the captive g ... More >>

NFL Stadium Hits County Roadblock

Super-developer Ed Roski's plans to erect a nearly 600-acre football stadium and retail complex in Industry received a bit of a no-confidence vote today when the L.A. County Board of Supervisors recommended that Sacramento not grant Industry an exemption from a state-required environmental review of ... More >>

New Football Stadium Still Blocked by Walnut

Walnut is proving a tough nut to crack, as far as Majestic Realty is concerned. Majestic is the company owned by super-developer Ed Roski, who is trying to plunk a professional football stadium down at the crossroads of the 55 and 60 freeways, in the city of Industry. The city council of that fair t ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

What Summer School? Due to its budget crunch, the L.A. Unified School District is canceling all of its K-8 summer school classes and most of its non-academic programs, while offering only credit-recovery courses for high schoolers. L.A. TimesThe More Things Change Dept. L.A. City Attorney-elect Carm ... More >>

Industry's Stadium Woes: Walnut Won't Be Cracked

Diamond Bar's city council may have folded under the millions of dollars its town was offered to cooperate, but Walnut is still suing Industry to get its neighbor to halt the giant rubber stamp that's been hammering overtime to clear the way for an $800 million NFL stadium. Thanks to Curbed L.A., fo ... More >>

Intentional Grounding: Diamond Bar Drops Stadium Suit

Diamond Bar residents awoke today to learn their city council had unanimously accepted $21 million from neighboring Industry to drop a lawsuit against Industry's proposed football stadium. The 75,000-seat venue, a project of L.A. developer Ed Roski, is budgeted to cost $800 million and be completed ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

From Yellow Cab to Green? Santa Monica's angst now extends to worrying whether it has too many polluting taxis, driven by impolite cabbies. A freeze is in the works. L.A. TimesBill Commemorating the Other Holocaust Once more Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Glendale) will introduce a bill to commemorate t ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Waiting for Wal-Mart Far from fearing a big-box store, job-hungry Florence-Firestone residents are petitioning to get a Wal-Mart put in their community. L.A. TimesHeal the Aquarium An octopus exploring its tank at the Santa Monica Aquarium loosened a water-control valve, flooding the facility with m ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Stadium Protests Begin Residents of Diamond Bar and Walnut organized the first of what promises to be many protests against Ed Roski's dream to bring an NLF team to Industry -- and the stadium he'll build. San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports.Feds Investigating L.A. Cops An L.A. Times story reveals th ... More >>

Industry Stadium: Years Before Kickoff

Today City of Industry's city council rubber-stamped approval of a plan to build a football stadium on vacant land near the nexus of the 60 and 57 Freeways. The vote followed Tuesday's  victory of a $150 million bond measure, which was passed by 60 of Industry's 82 registered voters. The build- ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

City of Industry Votes for NFL Bait A majority of City of Industry Voters (all 82 of them) passed a measure allowing the sale of $150 million in bonds, whose money could be used to build an NFL stadium. The vote was 60-1 on the scheme proposed by developer Ed Roski.Belkin Admits Plug n Pay Scheme Th ... More >>

Crosstown Rivals

When USC and UCLA put on their academic game faces, nothing less than the future of the city is at stake

I Could Be a Voice for the Other L.A.

Web exclusive: the L.A. Weekly’s interview with Antonio Villaraigosa, candidate for the 14th Los Angeles City Council District

Stadium Schemes

The secretive and expensive road to L.A. football

The Old Ball Game

L.A.’s future is fine without football

In the Beginning

An introduction to and brief history of the river

Downtown

From the Narrows to South L.A.

Rocky’s Road

Delgadillo is driven to develop L.A. — and his career

Virtues of Giving

School reform is just one reason to donate to the mayor’s Coalition for Kids

Money Fields

End of the line for L.A. River park

Bad Call

Mayor Dick makes spirited call to ol’ Hal

River Affront

L.A. River boosters try to stop federal money for industrial project

Blundering Times

Publisher and editor still have some answerin’ to do about the dumb Staples Center sellout

It’s Chinatown, Jake

The behind-closed-doors transformation of the downtown rail yards

Cattle Call

The Race to Succeed Richard Riordan -- and to Shape the Future of Los Angeles -- Has Already Begun

The Anti-Reform Movement

As election eve approaches, see who opposes the charter — and why

Power Player

Ed Roski Jr. owns a piece of the Kings and the Lakers. But his favorite game is hardball

Bank JOB

Stafford called on Roski in bid to control local lender

Taco Bowl

Carson meets Michael Ovitz