Edward P. Roski Jr., part owner of the Los Angeles Kings and Lakers will make a plan public on Thursday that would propose the building of a 75,000 seat stadium in hopes of bringing an NFL team back to Los Angeles.

According to vice president of Majestic Realty, John Semcken, the stadium will be in the City of Industry.

Roski claimed he wants to start the process now in hopes of bringing a team in the next decade, as reported by John Nadel and Steve Lawrence of The Associated Press:

The proposed stadium, near the southern intersection of the 57 and 60 freeways some 20 miles east of Los Angeles, would be surrounded by a high-end shopping mall, and located on a vacant property which Roski already owns, Semcken said.

“We’ve spent the last year designing a football stadium that is ideally suited for the Southern California marketplace that will be a part of a major entertainment, retail and office development,” Semcken told The Associated Press.

Los Angeles, the second-largest media market in the country, has been without an NFL team since 1995, when the Raiders moved back to Oakland after playing 13 years at the Los Angeles Coliseum and the Rams moved from Anaheim to St. Louis.

Semcken further claimed that if a team committed to moving to Los Angeles today, the stadium would be ready for that team’s first exhibition game of the 2011 season.

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello claimed the NFL had no part in the press conference to be held on Thursday.

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