Indeed, behind him was a massive work site, 35 feet deep, where, in a few years, the team’s training facility and business offices all will be located – as well as the 18,000-seat basketball arena that Diaz promised would be the “most raucous and rollicking” of its kind. “That means we’ve completed our excavation.” “This week we’re bottoming out,” Alex Diaz, the Intuit Dome’s chief operating officer who is overseeing operations planning, said during Wednesday’s news conference at the construction site. If it’s a milestone few days for the city, it’s also a big one for the arena project – which, the team hopes, will eliminate the competitive disadvantage that comes with playing at Arena, where the Clippers’ co-tenants, the Lakers and the NHL’s Kings, have always had the higher priority in regard to scheduling. The Clippers invited media over Wednesday afternoon to check in on the progress of the $1.8 billion, privately funded arena that is scheduled to open in fall of 2024 in Inglewood at Century Boulevard near Prairie Avenue – about a mile from where the NFL’s Rams and Cincinnati Bengals will play in Super Bowl LVI on Sunday. INGLEWOOD - As members of the Clippers’ front office presumably worked the phones behind the scenes before the NBA’s pending trade deadline (Thursday, noon PT), other members of the organization donned hard hats and fluorescent vests to show off all the work accomplished almost five months into construction on the Intuit Dome.
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