Will CA’s “stay at home” order stop stadium? — don’t know yet

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  • March 20, 2020 at 12:07 am #112681
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    California “stay at home” order likely will stop L.A. stadium construction

    http://ramsrule.com/herd/read.php?19,779616,779616#msg-779616

    If/when there’s a football season this year, it will involve the christening of a new stadium in L.A. That stadium will now face a challenge to its ongoing construction.

    California governor Gavin Newsom has issued a “stay at home” order for the entire state, effective Thursday night. The order applies until further notice.

    Details are scant, but if everyone must “stay at home” then the people who travel from their homes to the Inglewood construction site won’t be able to make it to work on Friday, and they won’t be able to make it until the “stay at home” order is lifted.

    While the completion of SoFi Stadium means little in relation to the issues with which the nation currently is dealing, it’s another tangible intersection between the COVID-19 pandemic and the NFL. This one could ultimately keep the Rams and Chargers from playing in their new stadium in September — and if the stadium is delayed until 2021, it will force the league either to move Super Bowl LV to a new location or waive its rule requiring that any stadium that hosts the league’s premier event must be open for a full year before the year in which it hosts the Super Bowl.

    UPDATE 11:25 p.m. ET: According to RamblinFan.com, the order will apply to the stadium construction workers, since they do not fall within the scope of essential services that are exempted from the mandate.

    UPDATE 11:30 p.m. ET: Per a source with knowledge of the situation, stadium construction officials will not be commenting on the situation until they better know how the order will affect them.

    March 20, 2020 at 12:58 am #112682
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    We’ve been in quarantine for a week in the SF Bay Area

    Tesla (in Alameda County in SF Bay Area) finally buckled to the stay home mandate and will cease operations this Monday.

    I can handle the LAMC for another year….

    https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/03/tesla-says-it-will-shut-down-its-fremont-factory-next-monday/

    Tesla says it will shut down its Fremont factory—next Monday

    Since Monday, Tesla has been under pressure from officials in Alameda County to shut down operations of its car factory in Fremont, California, to fight the spread of the coronavirus. On Thursday, Tesla finally announced it would halt vehicle manufacturing in Fremont.
    “We have decided to temporarily suspend production at our factory in Fremont, from end of day March 23, which will allow an orderly shutdown,” Tesla said in a post on its website.

    March 23 is next Monday—a full week after officials in seven Bay Area counties ordered non-essential businesses to close down. To make sure there was no confusion about Tesla’s status, Alameda County tweeted on Tuesday that Tesla was not an essential business.
    But Tesla persisted. In recent weeks, Elon Musk has been a vocal skeptic of efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus. “Danger of panic still far exceeds danger of corona,” Musk tweeted on Monday.
    Earlier this week, Tesla claimed that it fell under a federal category of “national critical infrastructure” and hence was free to continue operating under federal law—even as automakers in Detroit announced they were suspending operations.
    Operating the Fremont factory for an extra week gives Tesla time to make a few thousand extra vehicles. It’s also an extra week when coronavirus could spread among Tesla employees—though no coronavirus-afflicted workers have been identified so far.

    Tesla says that it will also suspend operations at its solar panel factory in New York. Tesla’s battery factory in Nevada, dubbed the “Gigafactory,” will continue operating, Tesla says.
    It will be costly for Tesla to have its Fremont factory sit idle while its workers shelter in place. Luckily, Tesla says, it had $6.3 billion in the bank at the start of the year—before the company raised another $2.3 billion from capital markets. That should be enough cash to keep Tesla in business even if the coronavirus forces it to leave its factory idle for months.

    March 20, 2020 at 12:20 pm #112702
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    There’s that.

    And then there’s this.

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    Fred Roggin@FredNBCLA
    How do developments of yesterday effect construction of #Rams SoFi stadium? Club will meet with local government officials today to determine what can and can’t be done.

    March 20, 2020 at 9:15 pm #112725
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    Rich Hammond@Rich_Hammond
    Construction at SoFi Stadium is moving ahead. All non-essential workers will remain home, and a spokesperson said, in part, “We are working with our general contractors, including Turner AECOM Hunt, to increase the health and safety measures we already have in place.”

    Construction workers at SoFi have been advised to follow many of the “social distancing” policies that we’ve learned recently, re: no hand-shaking, six feet of distance at meals/breaks, frequent hand-cleaning, no large meetings, etc.

    I’d say the next biggest concern is the NFL season itself, not the stadium. If construction pauses and it looks like they’re still playing in September, then we’ll cross that bridge…

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