With Rams stadium and Clippers arena, the area will become very gentrified and will not be a dump.
Of course there is the moral question of what happens to people who then can no longer afford to live there.
It'll be a gentrified dump.
Proximity to LAX is great in theory...but are millionaires really going to be flocking to live under one of the busiest airport approaches in the world when there's a billion other far nicer, quiet, and prettier neighborhoods vying for their attention? Especially when most of which don't requiring spending an hour on the freeways to get anywhere else and there's a bunch of smaller airports that are typically used by the wealthier population as it is.
There's a reason most sports arenas aren't near airports. I'm a few miles northeast of downtown and can be at Staples Center in 30 minutes (public transportation or driving). Inglewood, on the other hand, is nearly 2 hours away via public transportation right now (mostly buses). Of course the expectation is that most Angelenos drive...but that's still an hour that'll easily inflate to beyond 90 minutes at rush hour. It's easier to get to Anaheim than Inglewood from here, to say nothing of that providing a decent geographical/cultural shift to actually give the Clippers a purpose to exist. Inglewood is close enough to downtown to make it feel watered down, but far enough that it's a giant hassle for most of the city to get to.
The Metro will be expanding out near that way next year I believe, but that comes with the giant asterisk of the station being a 2 mile walk from the arena site...in other words you're going to still need to take a bus or cab/uber/lyft to finish the journey.
I foresee a lot of people being pushed out of their houses due to property costs quickly spiraling out of control and a lot of condos going up that'll be half-full making the rent crisis even worse. Lower income housing being replaced with luxury anything is the exact opposite of what this area needs, especially when a
ton of money is going to have to be spent to make Inglewood and the word luxury to co-exist near each other.
I ask LA natives, is Inglewood a good location, in terms of accessibility? I am concerned about lack of public transit, but its LA, its California and everyone drives.
Or could it end up being Glendale for NBA?
LA's Glendale would have been a nearly ideal location, incidentally, and that's before bringing up the fact that Inglewood already has a full arena-sized concert venue with The Forum only being renovated a couple years back.
That last fact tells you all that needs to be known. This is a pissing race between billionaires wanting to assert dominance and nothing more. Ballmer doesn't give a shit about anything other than sticking it to AEG.