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Dodgers' owners to pay $14 million a year to rent parking lots from McCourt entity
Land-use documents show that property surrounding Dodger Stadium could be used for shops, homes and another sports venue. Mark Walter, Dodgers' controlling owner, says there's no plan for more development at time.


By Bill Shaikin

May 4, 2012, 8:26 p.m.
The Dodgers' new owners will pay $14 million per year to rent the parking lots from an entity half-owned by Frank McCourt, according to land-use documents intended to "facilitate the orderly development" of the property surrounding Dodger Stadium.

The potential uses for the property include shops and restaurants, homes and offices, and another sports venue, according to documents obtained Friday by The Times. The documents also discuss the possibility of parking structures on the land.

Mark Walter, the Dodgers' controlling owner, said Friday that his group is not contemplating any development at this time.

"Someday, there could be," he said. "We have no plans to build now. We have no plans for parking structures now. In the next 100 years, that could easily happen."

Guggenheim Baseball agreed to a 99-year lease with the company that owns the parking lots, a joint venture between McCourt and an entity affiliated with the new team owners. Walter said McCourt would get some portion of the annual $14-million rent, after accounting for expenses and return on investment.

The $10 Dodger Stadium parking fee will be collected by Guggenheim. Aside from the annual lease payment, Walter said McCourt would not share in any team revenue, including parking fees.

According to the documents, Guggenheim has the authority to sell naming rights to Dodger Stadium. The McCourt-Guggenheim joint venture that owns the parking lots has the authority to sell naming rights to any "non-baseball professional sports facility" on the site.

Dodgers President Stan Kasten said this week that the team has no plans to sell naming rights to the stadium. Although some Dodgers bidders reportedly spoke with the NFL about the league's interest in a football stadium on the site, Walter said his group did not.

"We have not talked to the NFL," Walter said.

In addition to another sports facility, the potential property uses cited in the document include homes, offices, restaurants, shops, entertainment venues, medical and academic buildings, and a hotel and exhibit hall.

Construction on the parking lots would reduce the available parking spaces — now 19,000, according to the documents. Parking structures could replace spaces lost to construction.

The City of Los Angeles and Major League Baseball would have to approve any reduction below 16,500 parking spaces, although the documents specify that MLB would get a say "if and only if the team is then playing home games at the stadium."

Kasten also said the Dodgers have no plans to move from Dodger Stadium.

Tony Natsis, the Los Angeles attorney who represented McCourt in land-use negotiations, confirmed that neither McCourt nor Guggenheim had immediate plans for development.

He said the document was designed to be flexible in accommodating whatever ideas McCourt and Guggenheim might have to build out the property over the next 25 to 50 years, citing as examples the restaurants and clubs surrounding AT&T Park in San Francisco and Petco Park in San Diego.

"It is an ill-conceived concept that the highest and best use of Chavez Ravine is 260 acres for parking," Natsis said. "I consider that to be an ill-conceived notion for the owner of the parking lots and the owner of the stadium."

McCourt owns the Los Angeles Marathon, and the race course starts at Dodger Stadium. The document permits the continued use of the stadium for the race, with the company that owns the parking lots paying the Dodgers $40,000 each year.

The Dodgers initially filed the land-use documents under seal in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. After an attorney for The Times objected, the Dodgers withdrew the documents, waiting to file them with the Los Angeles County recorder's office until the team sale closed this week.

bill.shaikin@latimes.com

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May 14, 2012

LA Dodgers 23 -11 BEST RECORD IN BASEBALL T O D A V I A !!!

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Did not have much to say last September and most likely will not have much to say this September.

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June 10, 2012

LA Dodgers 38 -22 .632 BEST RECORD IN BASEBALL... 4 more wins than any other team in either league...

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It's getting historical, friends...

From MLB.com...

PHILADELPHIA -- Los Angeles has constructed a rotation stacked with aces, the way Philadelphia and San Francisco did to win recent World Series, as Phils interim manager Ryne Sandberg and former Giant Brian Wilson have noticed from very different perspectives.

Clayton Kershaw picked up on Saturday night where Zack Greinke left off on Friday, with the Dodgers blanking the Phillies, 5-0, to tack another win onto the Dodgers' ridiculous roll.

Los Angeles has its first 10-game win streak since 2006, is 25-3 since the All-Star break and has a 42-8 record since June 22. That last mark matches the 1941 Yankees and 1942 Cardinals for the best such stretch since 1900.

"We see what they've got," said Sandberg, unlucky enough to draw the game's hottest team and its hottest starters in his debut series as interim manager. "You see the roll they're on. They've come as advertised and shown why they're on the roll that they're on."

Juan Uribe went 3-for-3 with a three-run homer in the Dodgers' second consecutive shutout, their third in the last seven games and their fifth in the last 14 games.

Uribe, who is quietly having a remarkable comeback year after two tough seasons, was on one of those Giants clubs, as was reliever-in-waiting Wilson.

"Those teams had a one-two punch," said Wilson, who closed out the Giants' 2010 championship. "This team is one, two, three, four and five. From what I've watched the past month, they've just done a phenomenal job pounding the zone and handing the ball to the bullpen."

Kershaw even doubled in a run, providing help for an offense that hit into four double plays and had three runners erased going from second base to third.

Los Angeles is still a season-high 8 1/2 games in front, has won 19 of the last 20 on the road and six straight at Citizens Bank Park, is 15-1 in August and a season-high 22 games above .500, and hasn't lost its last 17 series.

Kershaw retired the first 12 batters, three on strikeouts, with no close calls. But his flirtation with history was ruined when Domonic Brown led off the fifth with a single past diving second baseman Skip Schumaker. Kershaw then picked Brown off first base.

John Mayberry Jr. had the Phils' second hit, a single leading off the sixth, and Casper Wells doubled in the eighth, which Kershaw escaped by striking out pinch-hitter Carlos Ruiz with the tying runs in scoring position.

Kershaw, who struck out eight and allowed just three hits over eight innings, is 12-7 with a 1.80 ERA and 7-2 in his last nine starts, even more dominant than he was when he won the 2011 National League Cy Young Award. He hasn't allowed more than three runs in a start in nearly two months.

"All that stuff is just not that important, honestly," Kershaw said.

And that attitude is why manager Don Mattingly expects Kershaw to just keep firing.

"Kersh is kind of what we're all about," Mattingly said. "What Kersh has done all year to this point really means nothing. He'll be one of the first guys here tomorrow, blow out a workout and be on track to the next one. He doesn't take a hitter off. Every pitch has a purpose. He wants every out he can get. And he keeps turning the page. Everything in the past is over, and it's about today. He's pretty amazing."

Dodgers starters are 15-1 in their last 20 games, with an ERA of 1.73. The staff's 16 shutouts lead the Major Leagues.

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figured it was time to unbury this
2 games back of the hated ones
not hitting the ball at all
time for the offense to heat up\oh wait i mean get hot. heat are losers.

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Your still missing the "any other team but the Yankees or Dodgers" option in the Voting choices...

Hey ES how is that billygoat doing?

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Don't be silly. You know Theo has killed, cleaned and will be cooking it up for all you non.believers soon.

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Best in the West!

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Yeah, it looks like it could be a California World Series this year...Dodgers vs Oakland. Is Kershaw for real?!
Damn, that guy can pitch! Scott Kazmir for Oakland...where did he come from? Talk about resurrecting a career! If I'm not mistaken, he's 9 and 3 this year, with a good ERA. He's struggled every year since 2008, after he left Tampa Bay.

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Here we Go DODGERS ! Here we GO! (Clap Clap)

Hola ID and Florida! I know you wish us well from wherever you may be!

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Good Luck after Kershaw pitches.. You will NEED it !!!

if we continue to score 11 runs a game it won't be an issue
the entire lineup is hot at the right time
grienke is freaking awesome and ryu is throwing bp work w kershaw this week
besides that haren has been a lot better than people give him credit for
he was getting no support in the first half and could be a 18 game winner wout too much of a stretch
no one else is on the level of clayton in this solar system
my major concern is the bp

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Yeah, I'm a little concerned with the rotation after Kershaw and Greinke, but we'll get Ryu back for the playoffs, and as LA Diablo pointed out the bats are really starting to come alive. If Haren gets some backing who knows? Hopefully, we won't need to dig into the bullpen too deep. Is Brian Wilson even going to be on the roster for the playoffs? I hope not. He's the only guy I know who could phuck up a wet dream.

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