The intentions behind Frank McCourt’s Dodger Stadium Gondola Plan

If you’re looking for a place to catch a Dodger game, there’s a pizza place not too far from Dodger Stadium called Lasorded’s. If you know, you know. If you don’t know, this is probably not the place for you.

The walls are almost completely covered in Dodger Memorabilia: Yearbooks, programs, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, world porometers, and pictures of Vin Scully, Don Drysale and Ross Porter.

The menu includes a pizza called the Mookie, with three cheeses, garlic, mushrooms, and cream of mushroom.

“The original pizza was called Spooky, because it was Halloween colors,” said owner Tommy Brockert. “Then we signed Mokie [Betts]. There are only solutions. “

We would like to welcome our World Series visitors from Toronto, one of the greatest cities in the world. In Toronto, fans come to the game the way God intended: in a big walk that throws you right into the ballpark, because the public experience of professional sports should include riding there.

In Los Angeles, where we built a light rail line that stopped two miles from the airport, we have a train station two miles from Dodger Stadium. For many fans, if you want to take Mass Transit for that game, you have to get to the train station first.

Meanwhile, he takes a burning bus from the union station. That closure — along with its sister franchise in South Bay — served a record 400,000 passengers this season, according to Metro. That’s one passenger for every 10 Dodgers tickets sold.

Frank McCourt, former Dodger owner, believes he can do better. In 2018, McCourt first set up a gondola from Union Station to Dodger Stadium, eventually promising free rides for fans.

As the project wound its way through various bureaucracies, some residents of Chinatown protested that the gondola would go too low in residential areas, risk damaging the lovely park, and add traffic to an already crowded area.

Brockert’s Pizza location is in Chinatown. He opened it in October, the day the Dodgers eliminated the San Diego Parch in the National League Division Series and three years after he opened the original Silver Lake. He signed a 10-year contract.

“I’ll be here whether the gondola is here or not,” he said.

Brockert strongly disagrees with the concerns of Chinatown neighbors. He believes the gondola would be cool, and would be a welcome bonus if it generated more foot traffic in Chinatown — and for customers.

“I don’t trust the person behind it,” Brockelt said.

How could McCourt earn his trust?

“If only we knew,” Brockekh said.

McCourt sold the Dodgers to Bankruptcy Court in 2012, but retained ownership of the parking lot surrounding the stadium.

“Just getting a gondola there? Is that right?” Brockert said. “If you just think about the business side of it, why would someone who owns a parking lot and makes money from parking lots of people want to make people there for free?

“If you own a parking lot, wouldn’t you also build something in the parking lot?”

Brockert is not opposed to the Dodger Stadium parking development. The city needs housing. Today’s ballpark site includes restaurants, bars and shops surrounding the ballpark. Brockert may be looking at opening lasordered’s there.

“The gondola doesn’t just mean Dodger Stadium,” Ed Reyes, Stadium-Area Councilman when McCourt managed the Dodgers, told a recent meeting of gondola opponents. “It’s about building a new set of Shopping Centers and places that can’t afford it.”

In a June comment to the Los Angeles Daily News, Joshua Schank — who helped shepherd the gondola through Metro Peacucracy — said the Gondola project would “open up new areas for critical housing development.”

McCourt and his surrogates said the Board’s only request now is the Gondola itself, and any future plan to develop the Dodger Stadium Parkium Lot would be subject to a new approval process, which would include significant changes to admissions and zoning. Dodger franchise owners can also make any improvements there.

Reyes was in office when McCourt proposed restaurants, shops, team offices, a team tourmate and parkand around the gondola building now because McCourt proposed it in 2008.

In its years of looking at the gondola, one municipal document clarified this issue in this way: “Is it possible that the aerial tram can be a disaster todger, clean the air, and hurt?”

Supporters of the project say yes, yes, again. Opponents of the project would say no, maybe not, and hell no.

Brockert has no time for politics. You have another pizza to make, maybe even a bet.

He participated in an event to support Betts’ foundation, and he took that opportunity to tell him about the mookie pizza, and all its topics. He said he told the bet that he would change the toppings if it was considered.

He did.

“Sun-dried tomatoes, chicken, onions and spinach,” says Brockelt. “So I’m working on it.

“Any other players, if they have a pizza they like, I’ll put it on the menu as well.”