INGLEWOOD, CALIF. — A public-private partnership between Murphy’s Bowl LLC and the City of Inglewood has opened Intuit Dome, a 915,000-square-foot events arena in Inglewood that will be the home of the National Basketball Association’s LA Clippers. Former Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer owns the team.
Intuit Dome is situated on a 28-acre site between Prairie Avenue and Century Boulevard and near SoFi Stadium, the new home arena for the Los Angeles Rams football team. The arena will host home games for the Clippers, as well as sporting events not involving the Clippers, family shows, concerts, conventions and corporate events. The arena opened yesterday with a concert from Grammy award winner Bruno Mars.
The Clippers have been headquartered at the Staples Center in Los Angeles since 1999. The team shared the facility with the Los Angeles Lakers. However, the Clippers will be the only tenant at the Intuit Dome, according to the Los Angeles Times. The development team broke ground on the project in September 2021.
Intuit Dome offers 86,000 square feet of training, medical and player spaces, as well as five basketball courts with more than 17,700 seats and 640 bathrooms. The arena also features 48,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space and an 80,000-square foot outdoor plaza including two bars, a restaurant and a 5,000-square foot team store.
The arena will also include a 38,375-square-foot, two-sided, halo-shaped scoreboard, which South Dakota-based electronics manufacturer Daktronics produced. The Clippers have signed a 23-year naming rights deal for the dome with Intuit, a global technology platform that is the parent company of brands such as TurboTax, QuickBooks and Credit Karma.
Murphy’s Bowl is a development entity backed by the Clippers.
The project team also included San Francisco-based developer and investor Wilson Meany. AECOM, Baker Anderson, City Design and Hood Design Group were the architects. AECOM Turner NBA JV served as the contractor.
— Channing Hamilton