Cities across SoCal are celebrating over being sites for 2028 Olympics, some for the first time.
Artist rendering of the San Fernando Valley venue in the Sepulveda Basin for the LA 2028 Olympics. With the Paris Olympics less than a week away, venues for the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games are approaching the finish line.
“That will be an iconic, historical event and Inglewood will be enshrined in the legacy of the Olympic games,” Butts said on Thursday, July 18. LA28 wrote in an emailed response on July 19, “LA28 has the additional complexity of hosting the Opening Ceremony on top of the pool which will take some additional time to add that structural overlay. But the pool, and training pool, will be ready in time for the Swimming competition.
Nancy Hoffman Vanyek, president and CEO of the Greater San Fernando Valley Chamber, notes that many BMX bike shops and bike manufacturers have been based in the Valley since the 1970s. Kids took their bikes to makeshift BMX spots — old shopping center lots — and rode the wave of the burgeoning BMX craze.
The Greater San Fernando Valley Chamber is working with Valley businesses to prepare for the Olympics, in both workforce training and hiring, said Hoffman Vanyek. The tourism sector, including hospitality, retail and restaurants, will experience a boost in business, she predicted. “Long Beach, they get impacted by sewage spills all the time because they’re at the terminus of the Los Angeles River and the San Gabriel River,” Heal the Bay’s director of science and policy, Katherine Pease, said in a recent interview.
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