Full Coverage: Inglewood NFL stadium

After four hours of public comment, financial analysis and questions for traffic planners and noise consultants, the vote by the five members of Inglewood’s City Council to approve plans to build an NFL-caliber stadium was swift and unanimous.

It’s not every day that a real estate developer considers walking away from $400 million in tax money.

St. Louis is offering to split the cost of a stadium to keep the Rams.

The Inglewood City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to approve an 80,000-seat stadium at the site of the old Hollywood Park racetrack, jump-starting the effort to bring an NFL team back to the area after a two-decade absence.

The drafting of a ballot initiative to approve the plan by the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders to build a stadium in Carson is complete and will be made public shortly, according to a person with knowledge of the negotiations.

As two separate NFL stadium proposals in Los Angeles took steps forward Tuesday, in St.

Los Angeles has had several sites proposed for an NFL stadium over the years, yet the nation’s second-largest city is still without a team.

After a week of acrimony, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and Chargers President Dean Spanos met privately Sunday to discuss the increasingly complex and controversial issue of building a new stadium to keep the team from moving to the Los Angeles area.

At $1.7 billion, the stadium being proposed in Carson by the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders would be the costliest ever built in the National Football League.

For two decades, billionaires, business leaders, Hollywood celebrities and high-powered politicians have taken turns trying to coax the NFL back to Los Angeles.

The Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers said their joint proposal to build a $1.7-billion stadium in Carson hinges upon whether they are able to work out new stadium deals in their home markets.

Steve Caruthers watched his football teams slip away long ago.

For decades, the expanse of empty acreage hugging the 405 Freeway in Carson had been eyed as an ideal location for a shopping mall, homes, a hotel, some combination of those three — or even an NFL stadium.

On the field, the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders have had as bitter a rivalry as any in the NFL but in a sense, they’re now partners.

A visibly upset San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer blasted the Chargers, contending that they deceived the city by working on a deal to build a stadium in Carson with the Oakland Raiders.

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In the two decades since the NFL packed up and moved out, Los Angeles has become a unique sort of football city.

The development company that is on a fast track to building a professional football stadium in Inglewood has poured more than $100,000 in campaign contributions to elected city officials, according to campaign finance reports.

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In the mountains high above the Sonoran Desert in Tucson, Ariz., Al Michaels and Stan Kroenke were hiking a tough trail near a health and fitness resort.

Pittsburgh Steelers owner Art Rooney II, chairman of the NFL’s stadium committee, had a simple message this week for St.

When developers and city officials unveiled plans last week for an NFL stadium in Inglewood, they painted a picture of a rare thing: A big-ticket project completed with no tax money whatsoever.

Bob Watson remembers when “Inglewood: The City of Champions” banners hung from the light poles on Manchester Boulevard.

The fitful two-decade effort to return an NFL team to Los Angeles seemed to reach a watershed moment this week with one NFL owner’s proposal to build a stadium in Inglewood.

The scene was unremarkable: a white Gulfstream parked alongside a chain-link fence at Van Nuys Airport.

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The developers of Hollywood Park on Monday underscored their commitment to building an NFL-caliber football stadium in Inglewood regardless of whether the St.

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If Rams owner Stan Kroenke has his way, an NFL stadium will be built in Inglewood.

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The St. Louis Rams play in the Edward Jones Dome, which opened in 1995.

The Oakland Raiders’ home stadium, now called O.co Coliseum, has had several names over the years.

The Chargers have been working since 2002 to get a new stadium in San Diego.

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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell informed the 32 teams Tuesday that the league will not be accepting relocation applications for teams interested in moving to Los Angeles in 2015.

For years, the San Diego Chargers have been unhappy with their stadium and weighing the merits of a relocation to Los Angeles.

Los Angeles officials are moving to keep developer Anschutz Entertainment Group from serving on a design review panel that will help shape the city’s backup plan in case a proposed NFL stadium isn’t built next to the convention center.

You don’t need to care about sports to know Anschutz Entertainment Group, a big player in downtown L.A. development circles, is trying to land an NFL team.

The NFL is officially kicking the tires on the Los Angeles market.

The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday granted developer Anschutz Entertainment Group another six months to find a team for its proposed downtown NFL stadium, while also giving it more influence over any backup plan for the site.

If there’s one great truth about the National Football League, it’s that its hunger for schemes to manipulate politicians and fans into filling its owners’ pockets is limitless.