“I’m not going to talk about it because we won’t need it. “We’ll have a contingency,” Ballmer said in an interview. Owner Steve Ballmer and Clippers fans held a groundbreaking party in Inglewood, looking forward to moving into their own home, the Intuit Dome. It’s the latest high-profile spending by the company, which announced Monday it was paying $12 billion to acquire the email marketing company Mailchimp.Ĭlippers hold groundbreaking party in Inglewood to celebrate new Intuit Dome arena The roof is designed to look like a ball going through a net.
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The agreement between the Silicon Valley-based software company, known for making TurboTax, lasts 23 years, said Lara Balazs, Intuit’s chief marketing officer, who declined to say how much Intuit paid for the rights to put its name, in part, across the top of the arena. On Friday, Ballmer and his team will call the 28-acre site at Inglewood’s Prairie Avenue and Century Boulevard their future home.Īnd officially, the project’s centerpiece, an 18,000-seat arena, has its own name: The Intuit Dome. For four years, as Clippers owner Steve Ballmer waded through costly legal fights and a lengthy environmental review process before receiving the green light to begin construction of the team’s proposed arena, his project was known by various names: the Inglewood Basketball and Entertainment Center, or Murphy’s Bowl, the Clippers-controlled company leading its development.