City of Inglewood

Redevelopment of Hollywood Park Racetrack

A multidisciplinary team of Meyers Nave attorneys is advising the City of Inglewood on the planned redevelopment of the Hollywood Park racetrack. The track, located three miles east of Los Angeles International Airport, is the largest parcel of undeveloped land in the Greater Los Angeles Area.

The planned $2 billion Hollywood Park Tomorrow project would create a vast mixed-use community on 238 acres. The proposed plan includes almost 3,000 residential units, 620,000 square feet of retail space, 75,000 square feet of office space, a large hotel,
25 acres of park space and a 4-acre civic site. Development of the preliminary plan involved an extensive planning process and fiscal analysis.

Attorneys in Meyers Nave’s Redevelopment, Land Use and Environmental Practice Groups assisted the City with the review and development of the large number of entitlements required to make this landmark project possible. In addition to advising the City of Inglewood on extensive California Environmental Quality Act issues associated with the Environmental Impact Report, Meyers Nave helped draft the:

  • Development agreement,

  • General plan amendment,

  • Hollywood Park Specific Plan,

  • Owner’s participation agreement, and

  • Redevelopment plan amendment.

The size and scope of this project made for a complex entitlement process. Meyers Nave’s ability to provide legal services pertaining to all the relevant disciplines enabled the City of Inglewood to integrate the various entitlements and navigate the process with fewer coordination challenges.

Status

Status: Ongoing

Attorneys

James M. Casso
James M. Casso
Principal
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Jamie's practice focuses redevelopment law and public law. As redevelopment counsel, he handles property development; mixed-use development; public-private partnerships; environmental agreements and remediation; and the purchase, sale, lease and financing agreements that involve complex land use, planning and zoning issues. As city attorney / general counsel he provides advice on the full range of legal issues facing cities and public agencies daily such as local agency election law, the Brown Act, the California Public Records Act and Political Reform Act.