beej
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none of them are saints. not the owners, not the league office, not the administrators. its quite the opposite. If they are talking they are lying. The Raiders will probably end up in STL just because of the fact that Davis is outright denying it so hard.
from the LA Times:
Kroenke: In the summer of 2013, I really started looking hard. I knew the general lay of the land in Inglewood. To me, there was one obvious place, and it had been approved previously by the NFL: Hollywood Park.
I didn't know if it would be put together or not. But I started looking. I was driving around at 5:30 a.m. That's what real estate developers do.
Q: Why were you up so early?
Kroenke: That's the best time because the traffic isn't out, so you can get around quickly. I started looking at different sites to make sure I had them in my head. What do they look like? What could be done? How does the long term look for the areas? And when you drive up to Hollywood Park, it's a great site.
Q: Kevin, do you remember getting that early-morning call from Stan?
Demoff: There are moments in your life you never forget. I was standing by the window in my office [in St. Louis] and Stan called. ... I remember he said, "This is an unbelievable site."
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2014/01/reports_rams_owner_buys_a.php
* Friday morning update: The Rams organization confirms the land purchase, but not any plans to develop a stadium. From the LA Business Journal:
Kevin Demoff, executive vice president of football operations and chief operating officer for the St. Louis Rams, confirmed early on January 31,2014. the purchase of the former Wal-Mart site in Inglewood. “As real estate developers, the Kroenke Organizations are involved in numerous real estate deals across the country and North America,” he wrote in an email to the Business Journal. “While we can confirm media reports that we recently purchased land in Inglewood, as a private company we don’t typically discuss our plans for commercial or residential investments. We have yet to decide what we are going to do with the property but we will look at all options, as we do with all of our properties.
from the LA Times:
Kroenke: In the summer of 2013, I really started looking hard. I knew the general lay of the land in Inglewood. To me, there was one obvious place, and it had been approved previously by the NFL: Hollywood Park.
I didn't know if it would be put together or not. But I started looking. I was driving around at 5:30 a.m. That's what real estate developers do.
Q: Why were you up so early?
Kroenke: That's the best time because the traffic isn't out, so you can get around quickly. I started looking at different sites to make sure I had them in my head. What do they look like? What could be done? How does the long term look for the areas? And when you drive up to Hollywood Park, it's a great site.
Q: Kevin, do you remember getting that early-morning call from Stan?
Demoff: There are moments in your life you never forget. I was standing by the window in my office [in St. Louis] and Stan called. ... I remember he said, "This is an unbelievable site."
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2014/01/reports_rams_owner_buys_a.php
* Friday morning update: The Rams organization confirms the land purchase, but not any plans to develop a stadium. From the LA Business Journal:
Kevin Demoff, executive vice president of football operations and chief operating officer for the St. Louis Rams, confirmed early on January 31,2014. the purchase of the former Wal-Mart site in Inglewood. “As real estate developers, the Kroenke Organizations are involved in numerous real estate deals across the country and North America,” he wrote in an email to the Business Journal. “While we can confirm media reports that we recently purchased land in Inglewood, as a private company we don’t typically discuss our plans for commercial or residential investments. We have yet to decide what we are going to do with the property but we will look at all options, as we do with all of our properties.
