Are the Intuit Dome and Inglewood’s sports and concert venues what the last significantly Black city in Los Angeles County needs?
By Erin Aubry Kaplan | Capital & Main
Go to the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, the new state-of-the-art home of the L.A. Clippers basketball team, and you’ll be greeted by art created by people of color. Pieces include a massive mural that celebrates landmarks and notable figures in L.A. and Inglewood, and a blazing blue neon sign that reads, “We may have all come on different ships but we’re all in the same boat now,” a quote from the late civil rights leader Whitney M. Young Jr. The cover of the Intuit Dome itself is a sleek futuristic web resembling a cross between a basketball and a spaceship poised for takeoff. It all creates a first impression of cultural resilience and forward motion, suggesting this $2 billion sports and concert palace was built, if not for the people, with the people in mind.
The reality is not quite that altruistic. The Intuit Dome is the latest addition to Inglewood’s growing city-within-a-city of stadiums, performance venues and a casino that includes SoFi Stadium, the Kia Forum, as well as emerging retail and housing development on the grounds of the former Hollywood Park race track. It’s all situated in a few square blocks in the middle of town, a Las Vegas surrounded by Inglewood.
Intuit Dome is the pet project of Clippers owner and billionaire Steve Ballmer, who also owns the Forum. Ballmer has cast Intuit as a true “community partner,” committing $100 million to public coffers, mostly for affordable housing. Between that and adding new jobs and programs like financial and entrepreneurial education, the Dome expects to generate some $260 million per year in economic activity in Inglewood, something its developers are calling historic.
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That through campaign contributions rich non-residents control Inglewood City Council decisions should NEVER be overlooked!
The residents most greatly impacted by the new “sports entertainment venues” have been disregarded, called names, and treated with complete disrespect by those who should be serving them.
From planning commission to council members the continued need to worship he who thinks he is “the selected for the impossible mission”, the buying in and supporting the Mayor as the hero is as pathetic as the Biden performance in the debate with Trump.
To claim there have been NO PRIOR noise complaints when El Segundo and Westcher residents cried out in response to the horrific vibrations closer neighbors have been forced to endure for several events is a complete lie. (Not much different from the LIE that residents voted for the Stadium).
How any resident can support and vote for those responsible for providing less service and at the same time increasing our taxes and fees is indeed a mystery.
Our once functional schools have been destroyed by former and current school board members more interested in titles than students. Now the actual school land and buildings are being bulldozed! GUESS WHO will have to pay for new buildings when the new condo owner/renters have children who need schools?
Here’s a clue- if the billionaires want us to pay for the transport system for their benefit…what are the chances they will pay for our children to get new school buildings?
Tired of fighting traffic, dealing with vibrations, sick of music blaring all night into our homes, and tried of parking restrictions?…all brought to us courtesy of Ballmer and Kroenke.
Let’s make certain to vote non-connected this November.
Re the complete articles mention of the mural–
all the art created will not mitigate the insults.
As for those enamored with slogan plastered in so many places around town – where is the tribute to those who built the “City of Champions” when that slogan was bestowed because of the 3 medal winnings Olympians from Inglewood during the 1932 Olympics.