Mayor James Butts says critics who say the city is undergoing gentrification have it wrong. Inglewood is soon to be the Sports Entertainment Capital of the World and that means opportunity for locals and increase of home values.
Daniel Freeman was the founder of Inglewood, he and his family lived in a small house on his property that later became known as the “Centinela Adobe”.
Freeman was from Toronto Canada and named Inglewood after the town in Toronto he was born. The city of Inglewood has a very rich history. Its the home of Aerospace & Missiles and birthplace of aerospace defense and exploration.
The national Space and Missile Systems in 1954, in the old St. John’s Catholic School (Manchester and Locust) is the place the U.S. Air Force established the Western Development Division.
A team of military engineers and scientists developed the country’s first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile- THE Atlas.