LA 2024 has submitted its Candidature File Part 2 – ‘Governance, Legal and Venue Funding’ – to the International Olympic Committee, highlighting the powerful economic engine, government support and venue partnerships that will ensure the low-risk, efficient and fiscally responsible delivery of LA’s innovative and sustainable new Games for a new era. These partnerships include an agreement with the University of Southern California to host the Main Press Center (MPC) on its state-of-the-art campus, located in the heart of LA 2024’s Downtown Sports Park.
LA 2024’s Candidature File Part 2 underlines the extent to which the bid committee has secured agreements with its partners, including the US Olympic Committee, the City of Los Angeles and experienced venue operators. As a result, the privately financed Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LAOCOG) would be able to hit the ground running to lead all planning, delivery and budgeting for the Games and Games legacy projects should the City of Angels have the honor of being named Olympic and Paralympic Games host city in September 2017. By ensuring the ideal environment for successful Games delivery is in place early, LA 2024 will be able to focus its attention, time and resources on its core priorities: creating the most personalized experience for the athletes, and harnessing LA’s status as a global media, entertainment and technology hub to connect the Games to the next generation of fans.
The document highlights the ideal conditions already in place in Southern California for hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games, including: a powerful and growing state economy that ranks sixth among the nations of the world; 88% public support for the bid; and a wide range of robust city, state and federal legislation already in place across priority areas for protecting the uniqueness, the integrity and the security of the Games. LA 2024 has sought to further mitigate risk and reduce cost with an enhanced Games Concept that requires no additional construction for permanent venues.
Since LA 2024 submitted Part 1 of its Candidature File in February 2016, the bid committee has secured from the US Department of Homeland Security that the 2024 Games will be designated a National Special Security Event, providing US Secret Service lead responsibility for security and demonstrating the US government’s commitment to bringing the summer Games back to the US for the first time in 28 years.
LA 2024’s submission incorporates its Joint Marketing Program Agreement recently signed with the USOC, along with newly enacted California legislation providing $250 million in support in the unlikely event of any cost overrun beyond LA 2024’s own extensive contingency and private insurance funding.
A highlight of the LA 2024 Games Plan is its Media Village and Main Press Center on USC’s modern campus in the heart of LA 2024’s Downtown Sports Park – one of four integrated LA 2024 Sports Parks revealed in the bid’s enhanced Games Plan. The Main Press Center will be anchored by USC’s new Annenberg Hall, opened in 2014, and the Ronald Tutor Campus Center, opened in 2010. A five minute walk from the MPC, LA 2024’s Media Village will be anchored by USC’s new University Village housing development, scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2017.
As part of its Downtown LA Sports Park, LA 2024’s world-class media accommodation and working facilities at USC will be located among venues hosting 14 different sports, including the iconic and modernized LA Memorial Coliseum (less than 1km walk from MPC), a temporary aquatics venue (less than 200m walk from MPC) and Staples Center (a 3km shuttle from MPC), plus a proposed central pedestrian corridor along Figueroa Street connecting all Downtown Sports Park venues.
LA 2024's MPC was previously proposed for NBC Universal's studio lot, which will continue as the site for the proposed International Broadcast Center.
LA 2024 Chairman Casey Wasserman said: "LA 2024 is grateful to USC for the use of their state-of-the-art campus for our Media Village and Main Press Center and to all our partners for their enthusiastic support for bringing an innovative and fiscally responsible Games to Los Angeles. With Part 2 of our Candidature File, LA 2024 continues to align its plans with the strengths of our city. We are eliminating unknowns and ensuring we can deliver what we promise. LA 2024 is more optimistic than ever that we can create for the Olympic Movement a high-tech, low-risk and sustainable new Games for the new era of Olympic Agenda 2020."
LA 2024 CEO Gene Sykes said: "LA 2024 is committed to harnessing LA’s creativity, technology and entertainment assets to connect the Olympic Movement with a new generation of global youth. The world’s media has a critical role to play in that as the storytellers of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, so giving them the best possible conditions to work in is a real priority for us. We are very excited about being able to offer the media a short walk or shuttle ride between their modern accommodation, state-of-the-art workspaces, and iconic LA 2024 sports venues. LA 2024’s media offering is another example of the benefits of having critical Games-ready infrastructure in the ground and not on the drawing boards."
USC President C. L. Max Nikias said: "USC takes great pride in its Olympic heritage, which dates to 1904, and we couldn’t be more thrilled by the prospect of playing such a key role in Los Angeles’ 2024 Olympic and Paralympic bid. Our University Park Campus, with its world-class infrastructure, would be home to thousands of international reporters and officials, while the historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum would play center stage for the athletes. The entire USC community stands ready to champion the Olympic Movement—and to deliver once again the magic that comes with hosting the Games in Los Angeles."
LA 2024's final submission to the IOC is due on February 3, 2017, which will include a projected Games budget. IOC members are set to elect a 2024 Host City at the 130th IOC Session on September 13, 2017 in Lima, Peru.
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