by Brianna Crandall — July 22, 2016 — Hollywood Park Land Company, owned by The Kroenke Group, recently announced that it has selected the team of Turner Construction Co. and AECOM to oversee construction of a 70,000-seat NFL stadium for the National Football League team the Los Angeles Rams. The world-class venue is the centerpiece of a 298-acre mixed-use revitalization project being built in Inglewood, California.
The current design of the Rams’ new stadium, touted as the largest and most technologically advanced sports stadium in the world, includes 275 luxury suites and more than 16,000 premium seats, with almost 3 million square feet of usable space. It provides standing room for 27,000 spectators in addition to its seating capacity of up to 70,000. The Rams will play in the LA Coliseum for the next three seasons.
Architect’s rendering of the proposed 298-acre City of Champions revitalization project in Inglewood, CA, which includes the 70,000-seat NFL stadium (PRNewsFoto / Hollywood Park Land Company)
The stadium will be located at the heart of the new Hollywood Park entertainment district in Inglewood, which will include an adjacent 6,000-seat performance venue, up to 890,000 square feet of retail space, and up to 300 hotel rooms. The project also includes up to 780,000 square feet of office space, 2,500 residential units, and 25 acres of public parks, playgrounds and open space, and will provide substantial employment opportunities for local residents.
Turner/AECOM is a joint venture combining two of the world’s largest construction and engineering management firms; Turner is considered the largest general contractor in North America, with over 40 offices across the USA and Canada, and Los Angeles-based AECOM is an international project management and engineering services company with projects in over 150 countries. Between them, they have built 17 stadiums for NFL teams and renovated 10 others. Over the past 15 years, Turner and AECOM have been the two largest builders of sports venue projects in the world, says Hollywood Park Land Co.
Turner/AECOM joins three other firms already engaged in the stadium project: Legends Project Development, which is providing project management services for the new stadium; HKS Architects of Dallas, which designed the new stadium; and Wilson Meany of San Francisco, which is providing entitlement and infrastructure management services for the stadium project.
