Inside LA’s New $2BN NBA Arena
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- Опубліковано 7 тра 2024
- Why a billionaire fought to build Los Angeles' latest venue.
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dude not the "outskirts" pretty much central LA county
Glad that the Arena is privately funded 👍
Yet no human should have that amount of money when people are dying on the streets.
@@PROVOCATEURSK I think all these publicly funded stadiums and venues should have an instant 75% off for the domestic tax payers who live in that city and or state.
however, anyone out of state flying in should receive the regular pricing instead
Yeah, taking peoples' homes through eminent domain was definitely worth it
Do you say the same about libraries and museums? I find it hilarious that people’s communism extends only to what they value.
@@0fficialdregsyour property taxes are lower because of the venues. Substantially.
As long as the owner is paying for it all I am all for it. It is tiring having other billionaires and multimillionaire owners expecting the public to pay for their venues
Yeah, like the recent Raiders bolted to LV and the A’s trying to get to LV also.
@@tommydong8070 The A's move to Vegas may be in jeopardy. UA-camr 'Depressed Ginger' just did a video on this a few days ago.
You mean the same thing the government does 😂
the outdoor court is awesome!
It’s an investment. The tax payers pay and then it helps boost the economy in the city.
We just want healthcare.
…and affordable housing.
This is privately funded
Oh stop being a burden and get a job. How do you think the United States ended up with the most advanced healthcare and medical industry civilization has ever seen. We have the finest and smartest doctors humanity can produce alongside with the most innovative and technologically advanced care on the planet. No one comes close. I get it this is the internet where self loathing for attention of others is some people favorite past time but get a grip. We cure diseases of every kind no one is able to do because we innovate. We are what makes modern civilization possible and guess what none of that is cheap. Get a reality check first.
Then get a job.
This is privately funded. As it should be.
BTW the "other NBA team boss" who owned the Forum is JAMES DOLAN. He sued to halt construction and instead of getting bogged down with a legal battle Ballmer just bought the Forum outright lol
thanks for this comment since the video never answered the dam tittle.
damnnnn
Talk about FLEX.
@@austin_andradeHe mentions the costs starting here 7:53. It's also mentioned in the description.
And the Forum used to be the Lakers home arena back in the day and now it belongs to the Clippers Owner 😅
Great video! As an LA native, I’m glad the Clippers finally have a place to call their own.
Separately: whoever’s compiling B-video of downtown Los Angeles needs to find more footage where the Wilshire Grand Center isn’t under construction. It was finished in 2017. 😄
LOL
Clippers should've gone back to San Diego. Lakers will always be LA's team. A shiny new arena isn't going to change that
@@Utonian21nobody cares old man take your meds
@@Utonian21Your ego is showing. Might want to put it away.
@@EbagsGalore huh?
Remember folks, if a billionaire tells you that their concrete and steel stadium with air conditioning, triple the toilets of the average NBA stadium, a screen that's almost an acre in area is carbon neutral...it's probably not
Yeah crazy that B1M just spits that as a fact. Even the carbon footprint of producing the parts will not be neutralized before it is it time to build a new stadium.
You may or may not be right. But give the guy credit for at least make an effort.
@@sikchopper3783 he's hardly making an effort by throwing money at stuff and taking the credit for it
@@joedowning2428 okay 👍
What would impress me is a deep ticket discount for residents of the city.
Well at least it'll employee a couple thousand people from the local area which is big
You can't duplicate Dortmund's Wall without the fans
They'll fill it up
Or the arena where Aris plays their basketball
We dont care about soccer shut your mouth
@KingLarbear they can fill it up 5 times over and it would still be DEAD the atmosphere is nothing like Europe and never will be.
@@serbianwarrior101it's NBA, Americans are passionate to it the same way Europeans are to football. Especially when the team is famous like Lakers
The grandest arena for a team that ain't ever gonna make it past the 1st round🤣
Hey that stadium was expensive do you think they can afford good players
I don’t get it…..
@@jdos5643 sorry bad English
The curse is real 😂
He missed that shot for sure @2:11
That’s why they removed that clip. lol.
I’ve been to the Sofi Stadium next door, and it was the greatest sports venue I’d ever experienced, now I’m excited to check out the Dome 🙌🏻
La needs more skyscrapers. Downtown doesn’t have much growth. There’s cities outside that are much bigger. Seattle for example even Vancouver. The LA skyline is the same.
@@jdos5643 I totally agree! Onni group is putting up a 54 story one now with a 70 story one on the way but I think the Ocean Plaza fiasco and high ULA tax rates have scared a lot of developers sadly.
@@jdos5643why does LA need more skyscrapers? Just cause Seattle has more? Just lol.
@@jdos5643 You're obviously someone under the age of 30. LA skyline in 2005 to now is unrecognizable. They've built about 20 skyscrapers in the past decade
@@fantasyEXX it looks the same still. Compare LA to say Seattle. Notice which is looks bigger. More widespread.
He fought the stadium and the stadium won, he fought the stadium and the stadium won
I’m sure he’s gonna be okay. He seems to be enthusiastic for all the things.
@@nadionmediagroupI'm gay too
😅😅
So the stadium is gay
“Carbon free” yet Ballmer refuses to help pay for the only transit line that could connect to it. How did the city approve this monstrosity of urban planning.
There's a rock close by if you fancy it!😂
That's infrastructure. I give him credit for the land, the building....he's done way better than many of the other "Welfare Queen" owners in every professional sport. Look at Buffalo, Nashville, etc......
dude, he got govt in his pocket by showing his fat rack of cash.
Ballmer is probably now trying to convince Elon Musk to service it with a hyperloop tesla tunnel 😂😂
The way cities always approve these things: kickbacks.
“Affordable housing,” “community benefits,” “carbon offsets.” Do you ever follow up on-or investigate-the validity of such claims or just take billionaire developers words for it?
Bloomburg promised 12years in office. Next mayor 8 years now Adam's 2nd term mayor has done zip.
Adam's defunded education to give to billionair developers
They don’t because i live in the area and can tell you there’s no more affordable housing, the community benefits only benefit the name brand chain companies and the occasional local restaurant/store that already had major local support before both the Sofi Stadium and this new Intuit Dome. the carbon offsets are A JOKE, because the amount of traffic the Sofi and Forum already cause is outrageous and definitely not good for the environment. They expect a 60K stadium to accommodate people by “public transport” but the area has been mainly residential forever so parking and cars needed g to get tot he stadium are ridiculous. so there’s really no benefit to the community but all the benefit to the owners
Cross-cultural all close up Cross-cultural How about the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, and other publications? They've all documented Steve Ballmer's philanthropy. It's all on the Internet for you to check. As Forbes puts it, is Ballmer setting a standard for billionaires? Google "Ballmer Group". It's the website for Steve and Connie Ballmer's Foundation. No glitz, no glamour, each year, Ballmer and his wife, without fanfare donate hundreds of millions. Last year, it was over $800 million. All the dollar amounts and organizations are listed for you or anyone else to investigate.
Well it's a construction chanel why follow up when it not the main content
What do you think?
Completely carbon free? L O L
Yeah, more like carbon neutral, and even that is dubious. If anything, they bought credits for trees that were already scheduled to be planted so they could claim offsets for things like truck exhaust and concrete.
Buying carbon indulgences from the climate Pope will do that.
@@texaswunderkind "the arena". Not trucks. "The arena". Once it is built.
The whole carbon thing is bollocks. In Australia we've had our coolest summer for ages, and hasn't California had record snowfalls this year? What a joke
It’s all BS
@4:05 Just what I would want to do at a live event... watch it on a TV.
😂😂
Exactly. People sitting high on top spending money to watch an event on a big screen next to annoying people.
@@tommydong8070 the alternative is to watch the event through a telescope or have 90% less seating. Yes being sideline level is amazing but theres only so much sideline and eventually it gets to the point you can just pay less and go for the atmosphere, not smelling the grass etc or watch it from home on a much worse sound system/tv
That's what people do when they have social skills. They like to be around other people. It's obviously not for everyone. Don't get angry at the people going to a party you didn't want to be at. That is on you, not them.
Relax, it’s good for people with bad eye sight ya big ding dongs
8:40 usher puns lol 🤣👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Watching your videos of projects like I'm doing quality assurance on these projects.....
200 million LEDS, OMG 😮😮
Like watching the game on Live on TV, in the stadium, but on TV!!
It's false to call this building carbon free, when you have to factor in the amount of carbon released during construction.
That's why they accurately said that it will be "carbon free from day one". Gotta love technicality in marketing.
@@rmmvwisn't day 1 technically when they broke ground and not the day the doors open
@@sweez_136 you're not wrong. Day 1 could also imply the first day of operations.
breathing 😢
Sounds like EVs
one fact missed....Bruno Mars will have a concert at the opening of the dome...
Carbon free, hilarious to see those calculations
I don’t get it….
Amazing coverage from the amazing group B1M-many thanks.
What a stadium, It is crystal clear there is no shortage of money here. And the LA Clippers have never won the NBA title! I think of my favourite team in English football, Manchester United, a club loaded with trophies and probably the most popular club in the world, struggling to scrape together the money to fix their stadium - let alone build a new one!
Please consider an episode of the Philippines massive Metro Transportation overhaul in Metro Manila. Connecting 3 elevated rail lines with 2 more brand new elevated rail lines, a subway line, and multiple bus lines. It's a massive project that spans an entire 10M population city.
Metro Manila is over 15 Million
Yup, the first underground metro in The Philippines. Worthy of a video!
When Ballmer is yelling he sounds like Matt Foley
Except he isn't living in a van down by the river.
So it’s a giant sports bar. You cannot see the game but you can watch a game on TV with other fans.
If you want to see the game, pay more for better seats. Ballmer didn't invent the fact that things are smaller when they are farther away.
@@texaswunderkind OK, I rephrase. Upper levels are a giant sports bar. The bigger the stadium, the smaller the live players seem. Ballmer made a giant stadium.
I would rather pay $50 and watch high up in the stadium with a TV there heating the lives sounds and action. Then sit at home or in a bar tbh. You get what you pay for...
@@mysteryhombre81so you’d rather watch the game high up, then watch it at home or in a bar? Why not just watch it in one place instead? Weird.
@@domfazool8326Why not go to a game and see how you then feel after. Sometimes home / bar is the way go. But occasionally being at a game is great. Even with a bad view, its about the atmosphere.
"The New Los Angeles Lakers Away Arena". There, I fixed the title for you.
Why? It's not that bad.
I had a beer with Steve many years ago when he came to visit Microsoft employees in Charlotte, NC. He started by playing a game of basketball with the Charlotte Hornets. Then he invited us all down and wheeled out the beer fridges. I brought him a beer and he parted the ways, found a seat, and drank his beer with me. He did chug it pretty quickly, but I got to speak with him for that 30-45 seconds. He was a genuinely nice guy, and really act likes you see from videos all the time. Nice guy, shook his hand, and that's that.
Well, not quite. Told my mom that night and she said "I hope some of his money rubbed off on you."
He’s a legitimate genius. He had to be to be able to deal with the Microsoft godfathers Bill Gates & Paul Allen. The fact he’s almost as wealthy as Gates is incredible even if Gates has given away most of his wealth already.
your mom is cold asf lol!!
The thing could have been built from sticks and straw, and would still have cost over a billion. It is being built in California/LA, after all.
California is the most expensive state because it offers a lot.
i think that's why him giving 100m to local housing stuff sounds amazing but is so so so so tiny in this great but expensive city
Any new video from B1M is an automatic immediate watch.. Thanks for this one, B1M team.
Great video. When are we going to get one on the revised waldorf?
Carbon free....?...not a chance.
The evil rich are out of their minds, lying, cheating and scamming the working class.
Exactly. Carbon neutral, maybe, but not carbon free. And that's not counting the emissions from the thousands of fans driving to the arena because they didn't integrate the nearby light rail.
6:53 Using “the roof is covered in PTFE & ETFE” and “that’s all really good for the environment…” in the same sentence is wild 🤥
PTFE is toxic to birds. Proof that environmentalists don’t care about ecology.
I don’t get it….
@@jdos5643 my bad i confused PTFEs with PFAs 🤦🏽♂️ sorry about that
I'm surprised it's taken you this long to cover the construction of this project. About time, and I'm jazzed for it!
Astonishingly Cool!
"flush with features"
Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week.
5:54..and I live in a van down by the river! 🤣🤣
It’s more a shopping center than a stadium.
That's true, but that's the way they build things now. Why have a large building that sit's empty most of the time when the site can be used to generate revenue on a daily basis?
They have to make back their money somehow
@@John_Fugazzi I don’t mind that and I get it, but it’s almost misleading to call it a stadium. It’s also a stadium.
Why what are they selling?
Love your videos. 😁❤️🤙🏻
I feel like its better to just share lmao. But I live in LA: the Wilshire Grand Center has been done for a hot minute. I work a few blocks away. Gotta update the b roll
yeh i think something missed in this is staples center has the Kings, Sparks, Lakers aaand all the concerts
Go to the arena so you can watch it on a tv?
Yes have you seen the Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers filling up their barns when their teams are on the road? They all gather to watch on screen... Its not what it's about... Its atmosphere
And get aurally assaulted by shitty music, advertisements, and shouting PA announcers.
Looks really nice and seems like one of the most spectacular friendly venues out there. Awesome. 👏🏻
Worth noting: Staples/Crypto is not owned by the Buss Family the way Ballmer owns the Intuit Dome. The owner of the LA Kings, Phil Anschutz of AEG, owns Staples/Crypto.
So the Lakers are 2nd in their own home arena (where the Clippers were previously 3rd).
I'll go check it out in 3 weeks.
Carbon free😅
I can see the electricity is uses being zero carbon, but the footprint of the building and everything in it, plus the travel for everyone driving in one of the world's worst cities for public transport, mean it's a bit of a bold claim. Still, better than doing nothing like most sports.
@@gordon1545 "the arena". They cannot control how people get there. "The arena".
@@gordon1545it’s ALREADY horrible since Sofi was built, traffic has increased drastically since Inglewood has been a predominantly Residential part of LA county. rent has increased, traffic has increased, pollution in the area has had to increase due to the increase amount of people coming to the area compared to before 2020, and now with the addition of this Intuit Dome and the resurgence of the Forum, this main section of Inglewood is going to be so congested and overrun with expensive apartments and stores it will make it inhabitable for residents who have lived here forever i would just is because my rent personally increased by $600 as soon as Sofi was opened
Describing the Dome as "flush" with features after highlighting Balmer enthusiastically touting three times the usual number of toilets & urinals -- Bravo! @06:00.
I’ve been waiting for this video.
What an absolute incredible arena. There’s no such thing as “nosebleeds “ in this arena with that giant double sided Halo scoreboard. 🔥🔥🔥
Also, Steve Ballmer is the most enthusiastic sports owner ever .🤣
I chuckled when the narrator called Inglewood a suburb. 😂
Carbon free Running….. an the building hahaha
Big LED screen for advertisements directly in your face. Beautiful
Greenwashing at it's finest, the construction materials (concrete, metals, etc...) alone must have the same carbon footprint than a small country....
@@manu.yt25 Yeah. It's all BS and just a tax write-off. The best reduction of a carbon footprint is NOT building it all
Talk about reaching for criticism. "Carbon free Running….. an the building hahaha", way to be an adult writing like a 13 year old throwing a tantrum online.
@@saksit247 im so sorry. Did I trigger you. English is not my native language. Can write and talk in a 2nd language? Where are you from? I’m 12 years old 13 is a compliment- thanks
@@diefachfrau no. I don't get triggered. I get irritated once in a while. English isn't my native language either. If you are 12 then you should be studying and not spend so much time in front of a screen.
Yeah - pay $200+ to sit in the upper level, just to watch a video board.......LMFAO
Clippers tickets are like $10
Dude has never been to a clipper game. Upper level tickets are cheap. $10 to $40 depending on the opponent. I've found lower level seats for as low as $20 when the clips sucked. Even this past year got to see the Twolves in the lower level for $40
Hope they give it more snag time than the Co-op Live.
Thanks!
“In the SUBURBS of Inglewood” is crazyyyy
Gangbangers are gone. They can't afford the rent
LA is supposed to be a giant suburb
"The Wall" reminds me of the Tottenham Hotspur South Stand, of course that's 17,500 seats, but same thing. The Kop is only 12,850.
I remember that video of the guy screaming on the stage, now I know who he is. 😂
It's still on the grid so NOT carbon neutral.
Yeah that is definitely a 'buzz word' that's way too overused.
I imagine the spectator will be paying a carbon tax though!
I like before I watch because the content is always going to be high quality
You mentioned concerts but didn’t mention how Bruno Mars is performing at the grand opening lol.
I still dont see how it costs $2bn without considering the land purchases. The SoFi stadium costs the same amount yet its much much larger yet as high tech
SoFi cost way more to build, my guy.
Almost THREE times as much at $5.5 Billion.
bribes etc. no one outside really knows how much it really cost
18k seats but only 4k parking spots. Love those logistics
It’s just a parking lot built across the street with a tunnel bridge. They just finished a monorail from other lots that stops 1/5 of a mile away. There’s still 5k parking spots at The Forum, 40k at Sofi, and 5k at Hollywood park. They all share that block, plus all the stores, and hotels sell their spots for like 100-500$. Parking is expensive and a bitch but there’s more than enough.
Not every single person shows up in their own car completely alone to games
At least its not like Kansas City Chiefs asking for $800 million of funding, these Sport Arenas should be Sold to Billionaires that can afford them but good for Steve funding his own Stadium
Ballmer and Cuban gotta be two of the coolest owners in nba. Super passionate about their teams. It’s not just about making a buck for these two, they really wanted to leave a legacy.
Clippers were so lucky to have Steve Ballmer as its owner!
Balmer's been one of the more colorful rich guys in the LA scene and it's been good he pretty enthusiastic/investing & committed in the local areas--that's a good thing compared to others, but we're getting way too many stadiums vs housing in LA.
Stating that thing can be carbon free is just ridiculous..
Once completed it will be.
@@jdos5643 Nothing that gets constructed, especially with concrete, steel and glass, can ever be carbon free. The only way to reduce impact is to build less, build smaller or with new materials and techniques with a much lower environmental footprint. Just because you have a bunch of solar panels and batteries does not mean you are carbon free. Even the production of solar panels and batteries is not carbon free. Everything has a carbon footprint. Document yourself (if you are interested at all).
@@lorenzo3987 but once the building is completed it no longer creates a footprint no? It’s only during the construction.
@@jdos5643 To produce anything small or huge you need the raw materials to be excavated, transported and processed multiple times. That is before having started to construct anything. Then you pollute again to construct and again to use the building, especially because there is zero plan for public transport connections. So the carbon footprint of something like this is what a small country might produce in a whole year. At this point the pollution is done and irreversible. Producing your own electricity isn't going to magically erase the footprint of this or any building (from the beginning of the planning process till its end life). You're only making the building self-sufficient energetically speaking. I frankly doubt the claims of its energy-efficiency, looks like a nightmare to cool down and is a heat magnifier with all that glass (surrounding temperature outdoor will increase). This thing you can only offset by planting a million tree and restore one or more ecosystems and their biodiversity. Anything else is just greenwashing at its finest. In short, the best way to avoid a massive carbon footprint is to avoid building anything new if it isn't absolutely necessary, then to build something with low impact systems or to build with a serious offset plan. There are mega-projects that despite their carbon footprint can reduce, mid to long-term, the carbon footprint of something else, say a train bridge or tunnel connecting two islands where the car and marine traffic is so high to justify the project. This vanity project ain't it, solar panels or not. As I said, ridiculous.
@@jdos5643 To produce anything big or small you need the raw materials to be excavated, transported and processed multiple times. Even the R&D process is part of the carbon footprint of anything. So, you already pollute before construction, then you pollute during construction and you pollute again after construction until the end of life of the building. Factor in this has zero public transport connection (it is LA after all), so more car traffic thus pollution along with the viability issues. Being self-sufficient energetically has zero to do with the carbon footprint of building something, even more so since this thing is not an energy-efficient type of building. Massive spaces with openings everywhere are hard to keep in constant temperature, which you need for indoor sports. Glass on the outside is a heat magnifier so you're increasing the air temperature of the surrounding area. No amount of solar panels or recycling (all great) will make this carbon free. All you can do, after having polluted for such a vanity project, is to have a serious offset plan to plant a million native trees and restore one or more ecosystems to increase biodiversity. That is how you can begin to offset the damage you've done. It takes decades for tress to offset what one building has done. But we don't just build one at a time, do we? The ideal scenario would be to stop building stupid stuff. There is, of course, an argument for stadiums or mega-projects. If you renovate a pre-existing stadium or build it anew with low impact techniques and materials that's much better than concrete, steel and glass. You could also build a train bridge or tunnel to reduce mid to long-term the carbon footprint of a crazy hectic wheeled and maritime transport route between say two islands. This is just lazy, damaging architecture which can't be passed for anything green. As I said, ridiculous.
Only $2B ??
Lol.
In Australia were arguing about spending 2.7B on a cricket stadium for the Olympics..
😅
You need to go to Montreal, there is currently 2 mega project that would intrested the B1m
This makes an amazing concert venue
2:51 giant bahsketball net? If you say so...
5:45 i love this guy lol! 💀😂
As a Lakers fan I am jealous, I also never knew how crazy (in a good way) that Ballmer was haha
This is north America, Every single sports arena should have enough parking for the entire crowd. Plus, there is absolutely no way that building is running at 0 carbon imprint! That is just foolish to even think that is even possible. How many toilets did you say they had...
Enough parking? North America needs to be educated on the evils of carpitalism. Drivers killed more people than the austrian painter.
What it needs is transit to reach it, less car dependant is a good thing.
i mean getting everyone there in a car really negates any fake or not fake carbon neutralism
Finally a stadium big enough to fit all the puns
the design is incredible. it makes me a Clippers fan by default.
I'm getting a little dizzy just looking down from those upper bowl seats. Pretty steep seating. Beautiful design though.
Just call him Steve Baller.
How come if he’s 100 billion dollar rich and the project cost him 2 billion why the guy said he may have enough money to get his money back? 2 billion out of 100 billion is nothing.
4:20
LV Dome: Am I a fucking joke to you?
Very interesting report. Whilst watching, however, I thought about the cost of the project. Building costs in the USA seem significantly higher than most other countries? Maybe another video, at some stage, regarding costs in relation to public infrastructure works and their affordability in various countries around the globe?
Fun fact about the clippers even some experts don't know. They were founded by the employees of a local barber shop in Inglewood in 1972, they named the team after their signature cutting technique 'The Clippers'.
A 30 second Google search proved that a lie. They were the Buffalo Braves, but were renamed after they moved to San Diego. Named for CLIPPER SHIPS based on fan voting.
@@texaswunderkind That's actually a common misconception the new ownership fabricated to hide their shady acquisition. I was there in the early days when Larry and his crew founded the team. They used to practice behind the shop with trash cans because they couldn't afford a hoop. Real fans know this of course.
it would of made more sense to have an underground subway or light transit instead of a parking lot.
The space where the parking lot would of been could of been used to collect water or a garden
it would of been also interesting to have a small TV in the bathrooms for those missing the game.
I don't think Ballmer's wealth or power extends to building a spur off the C or K line.
@@Croz89 Well just a thought. Could of use that land for additional revenue or something.
like residential, a small commercial center, restaurants, etc.
@Croz89 I bet it does. Ballmer is RICH rich.
@@Croz89 def does, bro got 120b for doing nothing.
@@0fficialdregsoh I bet they charge for parking.
with three times the NBA avarage number of toilets its certainly flush with features! 6:00 fantastic pun
An "amount [of concrete that] would fill 19 Olympic-size swimming pools".
Not sure if you're interested in waterworks, but the Dutch are installing new pumps on the Afsluitdijk that are capable of pumping out a Olympic-size swimming pool's worth of fresh water into the sea every 9 seconds(!).
Love an arena that might not host a play off game for years ….. Thunder up
The area outside of the arena is horrendous. It's at the intersection of two 8 lane highways like 20 miles from downtown with no rail connection so nobody can get there. Basically the world's worst stadium location.
I've never figured out why giant venues next to highways don't offer bus service
there is gonna be automated train that will connect the Metro line to the Kia Forum. SoFi Stadium and the Los Angeles Clippers’ new arena .
It will also be able to carry an estimated 11,000 rides per hour.
Also, there’s a pedestrian bridge from the West Garage allows for easy walking access to the arena.
Accessibility is something that was already thought about before building this arena.
It’s across the street from SoFi and the Forum. Inglewood has been hosting this many people for years! as Chick would say “17,505!”
That’s a great question. Why build it in the first place? LA doesn’t want the Clippers. He would’ve been better off moving them to Seattle. Clippers are the pests we can’t get rid of smh
Mind when he said the iPhone would not be successful as it didnt have a keyboard 😂 genius.
8:38 😔😔😔
u got it u got it bad
when you're on the phone
hang up and you call right back
The fact that Intuit can afford to dish out 500M to slap their logo on the arena tells you everything you need to know about how broken the American tax system is. hashtag landofthefree
Why would that be? Because the government doesn’t take every last dime from companies and waste it on BS? It’s like you think individuals and companies aren’t entitled to have property and only the government has an entitlement to that money.
Sports sponsorships are advertising. Advertising is a business expense. Business expenses are deductible. That’s how accounting and taxes work.
As far as The Wall, i think the visiting team can pick which basket they want for the 2nd half? So they can just choose the one opposite from The Wall?
No chance that stadium is truly net zero carbon. Offsets upon offsets and just number games.
4,000 parking spaces for an 18,000 seat stadium?
Anyone else see a problem with that number ratio??
😂😂😂
I guess they will be car pooling to games, just like LA residents do for work
Moving to Seattle would've been better than moving across town. The Clippers name could work since Seattle has other nautical-themed teams (even if a bit more inland), could share with the Kraken-which saves money on a new stadium...but yeah if the same dude owns the Rams, why not put them right next to each other
Ballmer doesn't own the rams
If I remember right, Seattle kept the name rights to the SuperSonics so I imagine any team heading there gets renamed
@@ambientcyan Clipper is a rather nautical term for a type of storm, which would play off (looks at Wikipedia) their WNBA team. I’m in the boat that the name ain’t broke in this case-just about any other probably need to be changed
Palmer tried to buy Sacramento kings and move it to Seattle. NBA didn’t allow it. So he bought the clippers instead. He wanted to own a franchise in LA
the views on the top are going to be really bad... you don't go to the arena to watch a screen
You should mention the members of the design team and the construction management team.
And everyone who worked there, while you're at it???
@@martinc.720 can’t tell if this is snark or not. Anyway, to clarify I meant members of the consultant team. Such as who the prime was and who the subs are. This a building innovation channel that doesn’t give credit to the teams of architects, engineers, and builders that are coming up with the ground breaking designs. Time is only spent on the owner rather than the folks who generated the ideas. Would be great to hear that this was both designed and built by AECOM which is a relatively new and unique situation for a project of this scale.
"Because he wants to become a lot wealthier"
Someone finally gets how humans work. People work / invest to make money.
It's only the most expensive because it's built in the US
They don't have the slave labour of the Middle East ?
Yup, some of the best structural engineering in the world will cost you a premium 🤷♂️.
Jewel-Singapore was here.
Something to consider: Ballmer's net worth likely fluctuates by more than this stadium costs on an hourly basis. This is rounding error for him.
I don’t get it….he is worth 100 billion. The project cost 2 billion. How is he in deep waters?
If you are not in the financial market space right now, you are making a huge mistake. I understand that it could be due to ignorance, but if you want to make your money work for you... prevent inflation
Thanks for continuing updates I'd rather trade the crypto market as it's more profitable. I make a good amount of money per week even though I barely trade myself.
A lot of people still make massive profit from the crypto market, all you really need is a relevant information and some ‹professional advice. ‹it's totally inappropriate for investors to hang on while suffering from dip during significant
You trade also?, I
No I don't trade on my own anymore, I always required help and assistance
From my personal financial advisor
Notice all of the amenities near the Crypto arena, while the new LA arena is built behind Bob's mechanic shop. That and with the combination of no public transit line, we've got ourselves a real piece of garbage that'll be abandoned in 20 years.