The City of Inglewood approved an elevated automated people mover (APM) called the Inglewood Transit Connector (ITC) that would travel through the heart of its downtown in March 2022. In April 2025, the City of Inglewood announced a new phased approach which is now focused on smaller-scale improvements including dedicated bus and bike lanes and commercial facade improvements ahead of the 2028 Olympics.

Update: As of April 2025, the Inglewood Transit Connector previously known as the people mover has been paused and rephased by the City of Inglewood due to lack of funding. The City is now focused on creating mobility hubs, traffic reduction, and investing in Market Street facade improvements before the 2028 Olympics. For more information about the City’s current plans, go here.

In December 2020, the City of Inglewood released its Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Inglewood Transit Connector (ITC) Project to connect the Forum and SoFi Stadium with Metro’s Crenshaw Line.

While the project stated that it would activate the downtown area and “complements and preserves the historic fabric of Downtown,” there was no planned stop there, the APM radically altered the downtown’s physical environment, and there were no measures in place to ensure it would not do the exact opposite. We believe the project as approved would lead to greater disinvestment, infeasibility of reusing and activating storefronts, and demolition of additional historic buildings in the future.

The APM would be elevated approximately forty feet in the air with large concrete support columns that would dominate and dramatically alter the existing low-rise Main Street commercial district. The Conservancy was concerned about what type of environment would result for pedestrians once the APM was constructed.

Within the Project Area, there are ten identified historic resources, nine of which are located within the Downtown area. In their analysis, Historic Resources Group (HRG) found significant impacts to several resources, most notably the National Register of Historic Places-listed Fox Theatre. The Federal Building and Loan Association building would be demolished to facilitate a radius turn for the APM.

The Conservancy believes the Environmental Impact Report analysis underplayed the full extent of direct and indirect adverse impacts to historic resources that would result from the proposed project and APM. The scale and massing of the proposed project and APM will erode aspects of existing integrity, namely the feeling and setting of the downtown which is comprised of a series of identified individual resources, if not an entire historic district. To view our full comment letter, click here. We greatly appreciate consideration of our comments as we provide them with the intent of improving proposed projects.

As of April 2025, the Inglewood Transit Connector project has been paused and rephased. It is currently prioritizing creating mobility hubs and funding facade and tenant improvements on Market Street. Learn more about Destination Market Street Program here.