When St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke announced plans, approved by the Inglewood City Council last night, for an 80,000-seat, NFL-worthy stadium and entertainment district in Inglewood (to complement a $2 billion mixed-use development already in the works), an unusual thing happened: Everybody was psyched. No apoplectic tirades about parking, no campaigns against gentrification or corporate blandification, no cynical been-there, done-that shrugs. The goodwill toward the city a few miles east of LAX is so palpable, readers of the real estate Web site CurbedLA voted Inglewood “Neighborhood of the Year” in 2014, beating out Los Feliz, Koreatown, and South Park—the last being the rival stadium destination downtown. - See more at: http://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/no-one-complaining-blandification-new-inglewood/#sthash.XpGcEX3T.dpuf

 

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