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Kroenke’s L.A. stadium plan has room for two teams

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St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke is designing his proposed Los Angeles-area NFL stadium for two teams.

The Los Angeles Times saw the plans drawn by Kroenke’s firm HKS for the $1.86 billion, privately financed stadium in Inglewood, Calif. The stadium would be complete with two home locker rooms, identical sets of office space and two owners’ suites.

The Times reported details of the stadium’s design as league owners prepared to gather Monday in Phoenix.

Kroenke’s stadium plan competes with one by the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders, who want to share a stadium near Los Angeles in Carson, Calif. The teams continue to seek publicly funded stadiums in their current cities, but a privately funded stadium in Carson is considered their backup plan.

A plan for the $1.7 billion stadium for the Chargers and Raiders is expected to go to a public vote after a petition seeking to place it on the ballot was completed Saturday.

The league considers Los Angeles a two-team market and wants a stadium that could accommodate both, according to the Times.

Any franchise would need the support of three-quarters of the league’s 32 owners to move to the nation’s second-largest market.

In January, Kroenke announced he planned to build an 80,000-seat stadium in Inglewood at the former Hollywood Park site. He garnered more than 22,000 signatures for a ballot initiative, and Inglewood’s City Council unanimously approved the initiative.

The Los Angeles area last had an NFL team in the 1994 season, after which the Rams moved to St. Louis and the Raiders moved back to their original home in Oakland.

Kroenke hasn’t said he plans to move the Rams. A stadium task force appointed by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is working on finalizing details for an approximately $1 billion, 64,000-seat downtown St. Louis stadium to replace the Edward Jones Dome, the Rams’ current home.

According to the Times, the latest renderings for the Inglewood site show a light metallic, wave-shaped structure featuring a roof that encompasses the stadium and a surrounding plaza, providing weather protection but remaining open on the sides. The stadium could host big indoor events such as a college basketball Final Four.

The roof has metal borders, but the area over the playing field is made of a transparent material called ETFE, which is as clear as a car windshield and strong enough to support the weight of a vehicle.

“This stadium grows out of the DNA of the region,” said Mark Williams, director of sports and entertainment business development for HKS, which designed AT&T Stadium for the Dallas Cowboys and Lucas Oil Stadium for the Indianapolis Colts.

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