Business View Magazine | November 2019

190 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 in 2022, when Super Bowl LVI will be held in Los Angeles. “We are being considered as a host site for ancillary events,” says Pandolfo. “As we look further ahead, North America was granted the bid for the World Cup and Los Angeles will be one of the host cities in 2026. We won’t host an actual match, but we will be a practice facility for any number of countries that use Los Angeles as their home base. In 2028 the Summer Olympics will return to Los Angeles for the third time, and our facility will be home to five events: tennis, cycling, field hockey, rugby, and the modern Pentathlon.” As is the case with most stadiums and venues, these days, the Sports Park has found it necessary to update its ability to satisfy cell phone users when they are on property. “A couple of years ago, we partnered with Mobilitie, a global provider of complete wireless solutions, who installed a high- density DAS, which provides optimal coverage and capacity for all wireless carriers,” Pandolfo explains. “People just wanted their phones to work and they want it to be simple, so we listened to that. We looked at options to install Wi-Fi, but it didn’t make sense in this stadium; it made more sense to make sure that all of our cell carriers had the best service that we could possibly give guests, so when people came in the venue, they could stream, they could post, they could Facebook, their tickets worked, their mobile parking worked, their Apple Pay worked. We made sure that we had a state-of-the-art DAS system so that people’s phones just worked and they didn’t need to go through the hurdles of authentication. We learned that if people had to authenticate three, four, or five times in order to get onto a Wi-Fi system, that it usually didn’t make them too happy. We see working phones as a tool that helps guests get in the building faster, helps us sell merchandise and food faster, helps them get to their seats faster. And the faster that people can post wonderful things about the event that they’re at, the happier it makes all of us.” Dignity Health Sports Park is a leader in sustainability and has a number of “green” initiatives, with a focus on saving energy and water, recycling, and purchasing environmentally preferable products. It has irrigated its fields and