Dateline Carson – The long, resounding step that the City Council took two nights ago demonstrates that the city of Carson is ready to join the big leagues by acquiring the National Football League’s Charger and Raider franchises.
Not that anyone in the United States, least of all the San Diego and Oakland teams, knows if fellow owners will approve the unprecedented double shift on a date that has not yet been set.
The greatest bonus of obtaining a big league football or baseball franchise is the other-worldly boom that stadium-adjacent businesses will enjoy.
City Hall intends to profit grandly from the anticipated, but far from certain, arrival of the Chargers and Raiders.
They also mean for the entire community of 91,700 to gain from Carson’s expected citywide economic advances.
Tuesday evening, the City Council placed an impenetrable wall around nearby 600 acres that, in realty terms, are among the most precious turf in the Southland. Shrewdly, they are looking beyond the neighborhood of the unbuilt stadium.
The Council voted unanimously to:
- Forbid new development on the 600 acres for 45 days.
- Ban select discount stores from intruding for 45 days while City Hall figures out how to apportion projected riches
- Block new convenience stores from arising anywhere in Carson for the next 10 months and 15 days.
In an aside that displeased elements in the audience, it was said that Carson, an industrial community, already has too many perceived downscale stores.
For bean-counters and sensitive math majors, Carson is 38 percent Hispanic, 25 percent Asian, 23 percent black and 23 percent white, which must mean they have more cultures than people.
Now all they have to do is land the football franchises for this town which looks like the quintessence of evenly distributed diversity.
It is incontestable that Carson is the most fascinating, most visionary, most ambitious, boldest, bravest small town in Southern California.
Weeks away from possibly winning the biggest lottery in pro football history, two months out from staging a recall election of the colorful city clerk for the second time in his career, led by an occasionally troubled mayor whose C.V. is said to contain more spots than a leopard of the baby boomer generation, Carson nonetheless has raced past a dazed field of other small towns to swallow the sweetest economic plum available in America.
