The A’s are seeking up to $380 million in public money to go toward the construction of a $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat ballpark on the Tropicana site.
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The demolition of the Tropicana hotel on the Strip would delay the completion of the A’s ballpark.
A bill to provide up to $380 million in public financing for a $1.5 billion ballpark has not yet been introduced at the Nevada Legislature.
U.S. Integrity, an independent sports wagering monitor based in Henderson, works with 150 clients in 36 states to detect and report suspicious betting activity.
Employees at the Tropicana received mixed messages about when the property may temporarily close as the Oakland Athletics’ Las Vegas ballpark plan continues to take shape.
The owners of the Tropicana want to see a $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat ballpark built on their site.
The Oakland Athletics and the Culinary Union 226 have struck a deal on potential Las Vegas stadium workers having the right to union contracts.
Plans for the A’s $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat stadium at the Tropicana resort site call for the baseball diamond to face northwest.
Plans call for the Tropicana to be demolished, with the A’s set to build a partially retractable roof ballpark on nine of the 35 acres of the south Strip site.
Las Vegas is seeking to keep the NFR in Las Vegas, with some seeing the Oakland Athletics’ planned Southern Nevada ballpark as a potential landing spot.
If the Oakland Athletics receive the hundreds of millions of dollars in public funding to construct an MLB ballpark in Southern Nevada, the Las Vegas Stadium Authority would likely oversee it.