Louis aldermen to vote on stadium financing

The effort to build a new football stadium and potentially keep the Rams from moving back to Los Angeles faces a key vote Friday when St. Louis aldermen decide whether to spend $150 million on the project.

Kroenke is set on relocating the Rams to Inglewood, Calif, with a $2 billion plan for a new stadium. The measure needs one more vote, scheduled for 3 p.m. Friday, but the Tuesday vote indicates that stadium supporters have the 15 votes needed for approval.

Direct talks between the NFL Committee on Los Angeles Opportunities and a St. Louis stadium task force over recent days have resulted in an understanding that the league would contribute an additional $100 million, $300 million total, for a proposed $1.1 billion downtown stadium near the banks of the Mississippi River. Used under license. All Rights Reserved. As Thursday’s is the Rams’ final home game of the 2015 season, a successful move in the next few months would also make it the last home game in St. Louis – with no guarantee that the National Football League would ever return. Owners are expected to choose between the two competing Los Angeles projects.

Carson has already shown the Chargers and Raiders all the amenities they have planned for their stadium with a slick promo video narrated by Kiefer Sutherland himself. All three franchises are seeking relocation to Los Angeles.

The irony of the NFL’s help is that it is the one, along with the owners, that had asked city officials to firm its funding package for the Rams by the end of the year.

Confused yet? Imagine how you’d feel if you were a member of the board of aldermen, who only received the new bill language on Monday night. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that some protesters were at the hearing Tuesday, and a few were removed for outbursts during the debate. Mayor Albert Robles says that for Carson to “reach our dreams”, they have to be careful in these early stages with what the city allows on the land surrounding the stadium.

Previously, the task force was asking the NFL for a $200 million loan from the league’s G4 stadium-funding program along with matching funds from a prospective NFL owner.