The Weekly Newspaper of El Segundo
Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 110, No. 44 - November 4, 2021
Inside
This Issue
Certified & Licensed
Professionals.....................12
Classifieds............................6
City Council..........................3
Coloring Contest.........16-17
Crossword/Sudoku.............6
Halloween Frolic........... 2,20
Legals............................13-15
Letters...................................5
Real Estate.....................9-11
Sports.................................5,8
Weekend
Forecast
The Annual Halloween Frolic
Brought Spooky Fun for All
Taryn Zigertman and Dylan are in a festive mood at the El Segundo Halloween Frolic. For more Halloween Frolic photos, see pages 2 and 20.
One-Time San Diego “Super Chargers”
Will be Calling El Segundo Home
By Duane Plank
The Los Angeles Chargers, a franchise that
played their initial season in LA back in 1960,
quickly relocated to San Diego the following
year, then moved back to the Los Angeles
environs in 2017, will be calling El Segundo
their home base, beginning in 2024.
The Chargers’ brass announced earlier this
week that it had selected El Segundo as the
site of its new headquarters and state-of-the-art
training facility. The Chargers are currently
training in Orange County.
For those of you not-up-to date on the
travails of the Chargers 2021 season, they
are currently sitting at 4-3 in the AFC West
Division, in second place behind the Raiders.
And are quarterbacked by a young, rising
superstar, Justin Herbert.
The new facility is expected to be completed
in the spring of 2024. It will be located at the
intersection of El Segundo Boulevard and Nash
Street, on a 14-acre site just seven miles from
SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, where the team
plays its home games.
The land is owned by the Continental Development
El Segundo’s Jim Miller: Star
of the Accounting World
By Duane Plank
When you visit the website of El Segundo’s
Jim Miller, one of the things that
you may notice is who Miller is not. He is
not Jim Miller, the MMA fighter who toils
in the lightweight division of the mixed
martial arts carnival-styled roadshow. He
is not Jim Miller, the former Chicago Bear
quarterback who bounced around the NFL
for a decade and picked up a Super Bowl
ring backing up Tom Brady while drawing
a paycheck from the New England Patriots.
Nor is he Jim “Killer Miller,” the outlaw
and professional assassin from the Old West,
who was said to have killed twelve people
and met his maker back in 1909, when he
and three others were unceremoniously
lynched by a mob of angry residents who
were ticked-off that Miller had assassinated
a former deputy U.S. Marshall.
Thankfully, El Segundo’s Jim Miller is
still with us. And there must be scores of
other Jim Miller’s populating this great big
world, but you get the point, right?
Miller, according to his website, “is an
entrepreneur, accountant, personal finance
expert, author, Dad, and former rock-star
focused on creating things that make the
world better.” After working for more
than two decades as an accountant, Miller
founded the Astero Group in January. He
terms a “fractional accounting company”
that aims to provide the “best profitability
See Jim Miller, page 7
Corporation (CDC) and Mar Ventures,
Inc. and is slated to be leased to the Chargers.
CDC Senior vice-president of real estate Bob
Tarnofsky said that “we have been working
for more than a year to bring the transaction
to fruition.”
What makes the Chargers a good fit for El
Segundo? “Spectacular location for them,”
Tarnofsky said, noting the proximity to LAX,
which is very convenient for team members
and staff, prospective free agents and visiting
league dignitaries, coupled with the fact that
this small town is now home to the Lakers,
the Kings, and down-the-road, the Chargers.
“It is unprecedented,” he said.
Tarnofsky said that the selection of El Segundo
to be the Chargers’ home base “speaks highly
of how the Chargers feel about embracing
the community of El Segundo.” He said the
Chargers had searched “extensively” for a city
to plant their flag permanently and deemed El
Segundo the perfect location.
CDC, Tarnofsky said, “has been in existence
for more than a half-century, and this is one
of the biggest transactions that we have ever
done.” He noted that the Chargers are “very,
very community-oriented,” and believes that El
Segundo residents will see ancillary benefits
in town as the Chargers begin their outreach
program. “They will be active in the community,”
Tarnofsky said.
“This is truly a feather-in-the-cap for the
residents of El Segundo,” concluded Tarnofsky,
“a source of civic pride.”
As to be expected, El Segundo politicians
and city administrators touted the Chargers’
decision.
Said El Segundo mayor Drew Boyles: “El
Segundo has a strong tradition of fostering
game-changing innovation in business and
technology, and City Council is thrilled that the
Chargers selected our city for the team’s new
headquarters and training facility.” (The) City
Council looks forward to learning the details
of the proposed project,” Boyles added, “and
listening to the community’s input. I believe
El Segundo is the most important five square
miles of Southern California’s economy, and
this exciting project reinforces El Segundo’s
legacy as a city of world champions - where
big ideas take off.”
Added El Segundo City manager Scott Mitnick:
“The proposed land use at this location
will help (the) City Council implement its vision
to diversify the local El Segundo economy
further,” he said. “City staff has been working
for several months with representatives from
Continental Development Corp., Mar Ventures,
Friday See Chargers, page 7
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