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February 24, 2022 at 11:17 pm #136923znModerator
According to the LA Times, a Woodland Hills mall location is a large enough site for #Rams owner Stan Kroenke to build up the surrounding area of a training site and a team HQ facility. It’s also a place where Training Camp would be held. pic.twitter.com/wO1TpQflkm
— Nick Hamilton (@NickHamilton213) February 25, 2022
February 24, 2022 at 11:18 pm #136925znModeratorAccording to the LA Times, the Rams are in negotiations to buy a 34-acre site in Woodland Hills, where they would build their new facility and headquarters https://t.co/7Zvx1RXq3G
— Cameron DaSilva (@camdasilva) February 24, 2022
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Rams are looking to buy an enormous dead mall in Warner Center. Big doings in the Valley @BillShaikin @LATimesfarmer https://t.co/EaX7cYMroV
— Roger Vincent (@rogervincent) February 24, 2022
February 25, 2022 at 1:22 am #136928InvaderRamModeratori guess it makes sense. closer to the stadium. half the distance. but not too far away from where most of the players will be living. families can live in the suburbs to the west. but if you wanted to you could live closer to the city.
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March 25, 2022 at 9:01 pm #137914znModeratorThat's right the new home and training camp of our SBLVI Champions LA Rams!!https://t.co/Esp0VaDDzp
— SB-LVI Champs-JoeSilverFoxRamirez (@JoeRamsilverfox) March 25, 2022
May 7, 2022 at 2:48 pm #138801znModeratorBillionaire Rams owner Stanley Kroenke is the new owner of the vacant Promenade mall in Woodland Hills
Councilmember Bob Blumenfield says Kroenke might want a stadium, but it seems more likely he’ll stick with the existing multi-use plan
After months of speculation over who bought the vacant Promenade mall in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles City Councilmember Bob Blumenfield confirmed to the Los Angeles Daily News that its new owner is billionaire Stanley Kroenke, owner of the Rams.
The 34-acre Promenade mall was sold in March by Paris-based Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield for $150 million, but the French mall owner did not reveal the buyer. Media reports have hinted that the Rams were considering the site for a year-round practice facility.
“We know that that (The Kroenke Group) have different interests and they might put a stadium there,” Blumenfield said. “But unless they come to the city to ask for changes of some sort, and we grant them, they still have to do all what’s required in the entitlements” — the city’s agreement approved under the previous owner.
He said it was unclear whether Kroenke would build a stadium or a training facility, or simply adopt the approved plan developed by former mall owner Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield.
He added: “I assume one of the reasons they bought it was because of the way it was entitled.”
In 2020, the Los Angeles City Council entitled a plan to transform the aging shopping mall into a $1 billion entertainment, sports, dining and residential complex. To be built in phases by 2035, it was envisioned as a major destination project with 1,432 apartment units, a 28-story office tower, two hotels — and a 10,000-seat entertainment and sports center.
“Nothing is changed on the entitlement,” Blumenfield said. “The only thing that’s changed is that The Kroenke Group bought the property.”
Blumenfield added that he had no reason to think Kroenke’s intent would be “radically different” from the existing Promenade plan.
The Rams currently practice during the season at Cal Lutheran in Thousand Oaks, a temporary site that offers the team three practice fields. They have staged a training camp at UC Irvine, and the team’s headquarters is in Agoura Hills.
Spokespeople for the Rams and The Kroenke Group did not respond to requests for comment.
The original Promenade plan led to concerns from residents that the massive project would worsen traffic in the already congested Woodland Hills area and along gridlock-prone Topanga Canyon Boulevard.
Cal Lutheran University has been home to the team since 2016 after it moved from St. Louis. The team owners have been looking for a permanent training facility. Meanwhile, the Rams have funded two practice fields, a paved parking lot and temporary modular buildings containing offices, training areas and locker rooms, on the Cal Lutheran campus.
About 130 athletes, coaches, trainers and other staff members are based on the campus, according to a 2016 agreement between the university and the team.
June 25, 2022 at 2:02 pm #139427znModeratorRams owner Stan Kroenke bought another property in Woodland Hills, adding to speculation about a possible team headquarters location https://t.co/2wXWWPFFy2
— Rams Wire (@TheRamsWire) June 25, 2022
June 25, 2022 at 2:06 pm #139428znModeratorThe Rams are underdogs to the Bills and favorites against the Falcons in the first two weeks of the season https://t.co/j3TBZqfMsD
— Rams Wire (@TheRamsWire) June 25, 2022
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