LA gets closer to getting its new NFL stadium

So maybe it isn’t exactly Los Angeles proper, but the City of Industry is getting closer and closer to building its own NFL style stadium. This city sits around 15 miles east of Los Angeles, and cleared one of the few remaining hurdles to go ahead with the construction of its NFL venue. The City of Industry City Council approved a deal this week to settle a lawsuit with a neighboring city about the construction of the new venue.

The City of Industry will pay the city of Walnut 9 million dollars, an annual payment of 350k, and other concessions to get hat city to drop its suit that claimed the City of Industry did not research the full environmental impact of the proposed project.

This city is betting that once the project is fully approved, and construction begins it will be able to lure an existing NFL team to it. The most likely teams to relocate there seem to be the San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders, or the Minnesota Vikings. While the St. Louis Rams are for sale, it seems likely that a local St. Louis owner will buy that team and keep them in St. Louis.

The Raiders and Chargers are two California teams that are in need of new facilities, and we all know AL Davis is all too happy to move his team up and down the California coast. Since California is essentially a bankrupt state, there will be no deals to use public money to build either team new diggs, they may look at the LA project as a great way to get a new stadium.