LA’s glitzy new sports hub set for World Cup and Olympics – will local residents share in the boom?

With three top stadiums, Inglewood is remaking itself as a host of world-class events – and while some locals love the transformation, others feel left behind Melisa Arnold’s morning walks around the neighborhood are orchestrated by the staccato beat of jackhammers and the roar of airplanes pointed to and from Los Angeles international airport. This is Inglewood, she says, and its soundscape. After retiring from her human resources and payroll job last year, Arnold, 66, walks for miles around...

By Lynda Lin Grigsby in Inglewood with photographs by Aleksey Kondratyev