Facility Notes
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Roski Last Week Asked L.A. Area Chamber Of
Commerce To Support Plan To Build Stadium |
In L.A., Phil Willon reported the L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce last week "considered a request" by Majestic Realty Chair & CEO Ed Roski to "support his plan to build an NFL stadium in the city of Industry to help entice the league back to the L.A. area." But L.A. Deputy Mayor of Commercial & Residential Development Robert Ovrum "called chamber leaders and urged them not to endorse Roski's plan as the only option for an NFL stadium," and the chamber "obliged." Matt Szabo, a spokesperson for L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, said that the mayor "would like to have a team back in the city -- but has not endorsed any specific stadium site" (LATIMES.com, 1/13).
SPRINGING INTO ACTION: Dodgers VP/Spring Training & Minor League Facilities Craig Callan indicated that Cambelback Ranch, the Dodgers new shared Spring Training facility in Glendale, Arizona, "will be ready when the Dodgers' pitchers and catchers hold their first workout" on February 14. The "entire facility, both the Dodgers' and White Sox's sides, will be awash in various shades of brown, tan and bronze, a motif intended to blend seamlessly into the desert landscape and the various mountain ranges in the distance." The clubhouse "includes a locker room that is about 25[%] larger than the unusually spacious room where the Dodgers dressed" in Vero Beach, Florida, the former site of the team's Spring-Training facilities. Meanwhile, in L.A., Tony Jackson noted seven of the 15 Dodgers Spring Training games are "designated as 'premium' games, for which the price of each ticket is increased by $2-$5" (L.A. DAILY NEWS, 1/13).
BLUEGRASS BYLAWS: In Louisville, Marcus Green reports the Kentucky Attorney General's office has discovered that the Louisville Arena Authority (LAA) "violated Kentucky's open-records law in a dispute over documents sought" by Louisville-based RAM Engineering & Construction VP William Chilton III. The opinion, issued last week, "found that the authority violated the law by failing to give a detailed explanation for delays in providing records" to Chilton. The ruling showed that the LAA also "'subverted the intent' of the open-records laws by not giving Chilton timely access to the documents." Chilton had sought the records as part of a lawsuit that he and his company filed against planners of the new Louisville downtown arena in September, after "being passed over for excavation work" on the project (Louisville COURIER-JOURNAL, 1/14).
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