With a 27,000-square-foot green roof, owners’ suites decked out in reclaimed wood, and farm-to-table concession offerings, the 68,500-seat stadium includes a wide variety of “green” features. But none of these is more crucial to its operations than the use of recycled water for its flushing and irrigation systems, which account for 85 percent of the facility’s water usage.

The Hotel Statler, later known as the Wilshire Grand, would become an L.A. cultural icon, hosting celebrities, politicians and businesspeople the world over. Yet, over time, its heating and cooling systems became so inefficient that not even a $20 million makeover could save the aging hotel, setting in motion the five-year construction of a new hotel, offices and retail space.