INGLEWOOD, Calif. – When Stan Kroenke asked his fellow NFL owners for permission to return pro football to Los Angeles nearly a half-decade ago, he won them over by promising something nobody else could realistically deliver.The Rams owner vowed to build a football palace.The billionaire proposed a luxurious, massive new home for his NFL team, a landmark that would become the most important sports arena in North America's second-largest city for the next century.
Kroenke dazzled his fellow multimillionaires with sketches of a strikingly unique stadium with a surrounding development that would become the NFL’s West Coast hub.While the full scope of that $5 billion development is still years away from completion, the centerpiece of Kroenke's.