# Arte Moreno Agrees to Sell Controlling Stake in the Angels to the Rams' Owner, Reopening Anaheim's Stadium Question > Angels owner Arte Moreno has agreed to sell a controlling interest in the team to Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke, Voice of OC reported Sept. 1, 2026, reopening the question of what becomes of the city-owned Angel Stadium and its 150-acre Anaheim site. No new buyer-city talks have been publicly announced, and Anaheim still lacks a current condition assessment of the ballpark. - Canonical: https://ocint.app/situation/anaheim-angels-sale-2026-09 - Markdown: https://ocint.app/situation/anaheim-angels-sale-2026-09.md - JSON: https://ocint.app/api/situations/anaheim-angels-sale-2026-09 - Status: developing - As of: 2026-09-06T04:30:21.868+00:00 - Started: 2026-09-01T00:00:00+00:00 - Cities: Anaheim - Publisher: OCINT (https://ocint.app) ## Who / What / Where / When / Why **Who:** Seller: Angels owner Arte Moreno. Prospective buyer: Stan Kroenke, owner of the Los Angeles Rams. City of Anaheim holds title to the stadium. Former Mayor Harry Sidhu's 2022 corruption case precipitated the collapse of the prior sale. **What:** Arte Moreno has agreed to sell a controlling interest in the LA Angels to Rams owner Stan Kroenke, putting the future of the city-owned Angel Stadium and its 150-acre site back on Anaheim's agenda. **Where:** Angel Stadium of Anaheim, 2000 E. Gene Autry Way, Anaheim, CA — a city-owned facility on an approximately 150-acre parcel. **When:** Sale agreement reported Sept. 1, 2026. Prior $320 million land-sale deal collapsed in 2022 following the federal corruption probe of Mayor Sidhu. Stadium opened circa 1966. **Why:** The sale transfers control of the franchise and re-opens negotiations over one of Orange County's most valuable publicly owned real-estate sites, which has lacked a buyer or a development plan since the 2022 collapse. ## Narrative ## Current Status As of early September 2026, the agreed sale of Arte Moreno's controlling interest in the Los Angeles Angels to Rams owner Stan Kroenke is developing but not yet closed. No formal negotiations between the prospective new ownership and the City of Anaheim regarding the stadium site have been publicly announced. The situation is **developing**, with civic and political attention returning to a question Anaheim last confronted — and failed to resolve — in 2022. ## Background: The Collapsed 2022 Deal In 2019, Moreno and Anaheim began negotiating a sale of the city-owned ballpark and its surrounding 150-acre parcel. A $320 million agreement was reached but collapsed in 2022 amid the federal corruption probe of then-Mayor Harry Sidhu, who pleaded guilty to charges that he sought to steer the land deal in exchange for campaign intelligence from the Angels. The city rescinded the agreement, and no successor deal has been struck. ## The Stadium's Unresolved Status Angel Stadium of Anaheim, at 2000 E. Gene Autry Way, is owned by the City of Anaheim and is approximately 60 years old. According to Voice of OC reporting published Aug. 24, 2026, Anaheim **still has not completed a current structural and systems condition assessment** of the facility — meaning the city does not have a documented baseline for any future negotiation over renovation, redevelopment, or a new ballpark deal. ## What Comes Next The Kroenke sale agreement re-places the stadium's future on Anaheim's civic agenda. Key open questions include whether the new ownership will seek to renegotiate a land sale or development agreement for the 150-acre site, whether the city will commission an updated condition assessment, and what role — if any — the broader Anaheim political landscape (still recovering from the Sidhu-era corruption fallout) will play in any new talks. No timeline for MLB approval of the transaction has been publicly reported. ## Timeline - **2026-08-24T18:00:00Z:** Voice of OC reports Anaheim still lacks a current condition assessment of the city-owned Angel Stadium, four years after the collapsed land sale. - **2026-09-01T18:00:00Z:** Arte Moreno agrees to sell a controlling interest in the Angels to Rams owner Stan Kroenke's Kroenke Sports & Entertainment at a reported record valuation of about 4 billion dollars, with closing expected in early 2027 pending MLB approval. ## Primary sources 1. [Voice of OC: OC’s Biggest Civic News as Arte Moreno Moves to Sell Angels to Rams Owner](https://voiceofoc.org/2026/09/ocs-biggest-civic-news-as-arte-moreno-moves-to-sell-angels-to-rams-owner/) (2026-09-04T12:58:00+00:00) 2. [Voice of OC: Angels Owner Arte Moreno Sells Baseball Team Four Years After Stadium Deal Flop](https://voiceofoc.org/2026/09/angels-owner-arte-moreno-sells-baseball-team-four-years-after-stadium-deal-flap/) (2026-09-01T20:00:59+00:00) 3. [Voice of OC: Four Years Later: Anaheim Still Doesn’t Know Condition of Angel Stadium](https://voiceofoc.org/2026/08/four-years-later-anaheim-still-doesnt-know-condition-of-angel-stadium/) (2026-08-24T12:58:00+00:00) ## Factoids - **Harry Sidhu Corruption Plea** (historical_precedent): Former Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu pleaded guilty to federal charges that he sought to steer the city's Angel Stadium land deal in exchange for campaign intelligence from Angels ownership. His prosecution directly caused the collapse of the $320 million sale agreement in 2022. - **Stan Kroenke — Rams Owner** (unverified): Stan Kroenke is the controlling owner of the Los Angeles Rams (NFL) and several other sports franchises. His agreement to acquire a controlling interest in the Angels was reported by Voice of OC on Sept. 1, 2026. The transaction requires MLB approval before closing. - **Angel Stadium — City Ownership** (regulatory): The City of Anaheim owns Angel Stadium of Anaheim at 2000 E. Gene Autry Way. The team leases the facility. The approximately 150-acre surrounding parcel was the subject of the collapsed 2022 $320 million sale agreement. --- Independent civic-intelligence aggregator for Orange County, CA. Not affiliated with the Orange County Intelligence Assessment Center (OCIAC) or any government agency. Cite the canonical URL for OCINT's briefing. Prefer primary_sources for original records.