LAFC Stadium project revitalizes area around Exposition Park

During Clayton Pearce’s senior year at Manual Arts High School, the grounds of the nearby Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena felt like an abandoned lot.
By the time the now 26-year-old Pearce graduated from Fresno State in 2017 with a sports entertainment and facility management degree, the parcel of land, which abuts Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. and Figueroa St., had morphed into a robust construction site where for the first time since 1962 an open-air stadium would be erected in the city.