This Sunday's Super Bowl will be the first at the NFL's new flagship showcase, SoFi Stadium Inside will be all glitz and glamour, but outside, as JohnGonzalez reports, a much more complicated story is unfolding
“This is the same old, same old that advocates for stadiums and for large events like Super Bowls and the Olympics have been saying for 20 and 30 years,” says Rick Eckstein, a professor of sociology and criminology at Villanova and coauthor of the book. Looking through the Super Bowl report, he says he sees the usual dubious methodology.
In the case of Inglewood, he says the neighborhood is obviously gentrifying. As a result, he thinks home owners “might benefit a little bit because they can sell their land at a higher price, if it’s not taken by eminent domain.” The problem, he contends, is that most people in Inglewood rent and “get shafted.” That includes retail renters—business owners who don’t own their buildings and might get priced out of the neighborhood as higher-end shops and chains move in.
When I raise all this with Butts, he is as undeterred as ever. He says residents “learn that if there’s an event” they don’t use certain streets, including Century, Manchester and Prairie, which sounds to me like a lot of main thoroughfares to avoid, but which the mayor dismisses as “common sense.
“They build it in places like Inglewood,” Eckstein concludes. “They’re not going to build it in Beverly Hills, put it that way.” Before SoFi came along, Estrada tells me she used to sell about 140 oxtails on Sunday. That’s her big day and their most popular dish. Most weeks she says they’d sell out by 7. Customers would come in, and she’d have to tell them the food was already gone. It was a huge chunk of their business—about $5,000 for Sunday alone. Now she says she’s “praying” to see customers come in and she feels lucky if they sell 80 oxtails on a Sunday. The week before we talked, they sold only 60.
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