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 Interactive map of Rams Village at Warner Center | |
| Location | Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States |
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| Coordinates | 34°10′53″N118°36′8″W / 34.18139°N 118.60222°W /34.18139; -118.60222 |
| Website | Official website |
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| Owner | Kroenke Sports & Entertainment |
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| Size | 52 acres (21 ha) 100 acres (40 ha) total with Topanga Village |
TheRams Village at Warner Center in theWoodland Hills neighborhood ofLos Angeles, California, United States is a mixed-use complex with the headquarters of theLos Angeles Rams of theNational Football League (NFL). Currently the site of a temporary team training facility, a proposed expansion will include restaurants, hotels and residences. The 52-acre complex (21 ha) was assembled from avacant shopping mall and an abandoned corporate office building.Topanga Village, an adjacent, open-air lifestyle and retail destination, is also included in the 100 total acres (40 ha) underKroenke ownership.
Warner Center is a master-planned neighborhood and business district development in theSan Fernando Valley which includes the Warner Center Towers office complex, theWestfield Topanga mall, and Warner Center Marriott Woodland Hills.[1] The neighborhood Specific Plan adopted in 2013 promotes the construction of housing, shops and restaurants which would makeWarner Center a more bustling urban environment where people live, work, shop and find entertainment. Thousands of apartments have been gradually added since the adoption of the specific plan.[2] Large-scale mixed-use developments are already in the works such as a proposed $1-billion complex on Warner Center Lane with offices, stores, restaurants, residences and a hotel that would include parks and pedestrian-oriented open space.[3]
The Promenade was a 34-acre retail development (14 ha) that opened in 1973 as part of the Kaiser Aetna master-planned commercial-retail-residential development plan for their section of the massive former Warner Ranch. In September 2015, Westfield opened a major expansion of Westfield Topanga, called The Village, an open-air shopping destination next to the largely-inactive Promenade mall.[4][5] In December 2017, Westfield was acquired by French commercial real estate companyUnibail-Rodamco, which would later be renamedUnibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW).[6]
In December 2020, a new development called "Promenade 2035" to replace thedead mall with a sports arena, two hotels, a 28-story office tower and more than 1,400 new apartments was approved by theLos Angeles City Council with the Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield plan being called a "mini-city ... within this larger city".[7] The URW development plan was scrapped when Kroenke acquired the property. Demolition of The Promenade began in January 2026.[8][9]
News reports surfaced in 2021 that sports owner and real estate developerStan Kroenke was in discussions with URW about acquiring one of its properties when it was reported that URW would sell its commercial properties in the United States.[10][11][12] In March 2022, the 34-acre vacant shopping mall (14 ha), The Promenade, was sold to Kroenke for approximately $150 million.[13][14][15] A month later, Kroenke bought an adjacent vacant 13-story office building, officially named the Landmark building, on 31 acres (13 ha) of parking lots and landscaping for $175 million, formerly occupied by health insurerAnthem Inc.[16] The 600,000 square feet (56,000 m2) Westfield shopping center called Topanga Village (The Village at Westfield Topanga) was purchased in January 2023 for $325-million bringing the total property ownership to 100 acres (40 ha).[17] This was the second largest sale of a shopping center in 2022.[10] The Village has continued to operate as an open-air lifestyle and retail destination since then.[18][19]
In mid-2023, nearby residents were sent a letter explaining that the project would be a year-round practice facility and headquarters for theLos Angeles Rams.[20] The Rams looked to establish a permanent practice and training facility in the westernSan Fernando Valley. Beginning in 2016 until 2024, they used a temporary facility set up onCalifornia Lutheran University’s campus inThousand Oaks. The Cal Lutheran site was nearly 50 miles (80 km) fromSoFi Stadium while Warner Center is about 30 miles (48 km) from the major sports complex inInglewood.[21][22] Construction of temporary practice fields at the northeast corner of the former office building parking lot began in November 2023 to be ready for the2024 NFL season.[23] The facility is not intended for their annual training camp, and Warner Center practice fields are not open to the public.[24] Following the end of the 2024 preseason, the Rams began conducting regular practices at their new permanent facility.[25]
With the development plan previously approved for replacing the mall portion of the property, the company is widely expected to seek approval of similar commercial development unrelated to football along with the team headquarters, practice facility and field on the 65-acre property (26 ha), modeled on type of development of the much larger SoFi sports campus in Inglewood.[3] While some have assumed that the former Anthem building will be torn down, the Kroenke organization could develop the land faster if the building was left intact and used as offices.[26][27] City officials are encouraging dense mixed-use development for Warner Center so the area can achieve its original purpose of a downtown for theSan Fernando Valley.[28]