LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles is finally getting a football team.The Rams have announced that they will move to LosAngeles for the 2016/2017-football season, and will play at theLos Angeles Coliseum temporarily. Once complete,the Hollywood Park Stadium in Inglewood willserve as the team's home venue. To find out how thismove will affect commercial real estate in the near and long term,we sat down with Steve Solomon, managing directorat JLL, for an exclusive interview, Here, he tellsGlobeSt.com that the Rams will certainly give a boost to thecommercial real estate market.

GlobeSt.com: How are your clients and colleaguesreacting to the news that the Rams are coming to LosAngeles?

Steve Solomon: In general, it has beenfairly positive. A lot of my associates are into sports, and wethink it is good for the city. If there was any team to come back,I am glad that they are coming back. I think it is going to be goodfor L.A. and good for the city of Inglewood.

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.