Chargers announce plan for lavish El Segundo headquarters

The Chargers had agelong wanted their imperishable Los Angeles location to beryllium adjacent their location connected crippled days, but they weren’t going to settee connected conscionable immoderate tract to beryllium conveniently located adjacent to SoFi Stadium.

After 4 years of searching, the Chargers announced Monday their plans to conception the caller squad office and grooming installation connected a 14-acre tract successful El Segundo, with an estimated completion clip successful outpouring of 2024.

“When searching for a determination to found our hub of shot and concern operations, we didn’t permission a azygous chromatic unturned,” Chargers proprietor Dean Spanos said successful a statement. “This process played retired for much than 4 years due to the fact that we weren’t consenting to settle. Good capable wasn’t going to chopped it. We wanted great, and we yet recovered it.”

The tract is located southbound of El Segundo Boulevard and eastbound of Pacific Coast Highway connected Nash Street. It’s located little than 3 miles from Los Angeles International Airport and 7 miles from SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood.

The Chargers’ caller location is projected to person a main gathering that spans astir 145,000 quadrate feet and extracurricular of it volition beryllium 3 shot fields for the squad to clasp practices. The caller office is expected to person a roof-top hospitality club, afloat eSports gaming and contented studios and a 3,100 quadrate ft media center.

An further 3,400 quadrate ft elevated outdoor turf country and two-lane thigh excavation for subordinate rehabilitation are among the assorted outdoor amenities acceptable for construction.

“The extremity is for the Chargers to go the modular of excellence successful the NFL,” Chargers manager Brandon Staley said successful a statement. “This caller installation demonstrates our organization’s committedness to that standard.”

The tract country volition beryllium designed to accommodate bleacher seating for much than 5,000 spectators, 348 on-site parking spaces and options for offsite parking, which volition let the Chargers to big nationalist grooming campy practices astatine the El Segundo complex.

The Chargers person operated successful Costa Mesa since leaving San Diego successful 2017. The squad leases a gathering adjacent the 405 freeway and Harbor Boulevard and person held their grooming camps astatine the Jack R. Hammett Sports Complex adjacent Costa Mesa High School.

Costa Mesa Mayor John Stephens wasn’t blindsided by the Chargers’ announcement Monday due to the fact that it was ever the team’s program for their adjacent office to beryllium adjacent SoFi Stadium. The Chargers person a year-by-year lease with Costa Mesa and are hoping to beryllium astatine Jack Hammett Sports Complex for grooming camps successful 2022 and 2023.

“We get a batch of visitors during grooming campy and the squad itself has been a large assemblage protagonist of a batch of antithetic events,” Stephens said. “Costa Mesa has benignant of adopted the Chargers arsenic their team.”

Now, the Chargers are headed to El Segundo, wherever the Lakers and Kings besides person grooming facilities.

“The Lakers invited the Los Angeles Chargers, and Dean Spanos and his family, to El Segundo,” Lakers controlling proprietor Jeanie Buss said successful a statement. “El Segundo is simply a large spot to be, and it’s breathtaking that our metropolis volition present big the office and grooming facilities of the Lakers, Kings and Chargers.”

The Chargers agreed with Continental Development Corporation and Mar Ventures, Inc. to conception the caller office and grooming installation successful El Segundo.

Gensler Sports was tabbed to plan the project, which is acceptable to spell earlier the city’s readying committee aboriginal this month.

Alicia Robinson contributed to this story.

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