The Oakland Athletics plan to build a ballpark on the site of the Tropicana, but Bally’s says where the stadium will sit on that site is still being determined.
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MGM Resorts International CEO Bill Hornbuckle said he’s seen multiple versions of renderings of the Oakland Athletics’ proposed Las Vegas ballpark.
With design work still ongoing, Oakland Athletics owner John Fisher didn’t reveal specifics about what the planned ballpark would include.
The Athletics got a legal win in District Court over a political action committee’s attempt to get the public financing for the team’s planned ballpark on next year’s ballot.
The Oakland Athletics’ application to relocate to Las Vegas is being processed on schedule, a source told the Review-Journal Thursday.
Mortenson-McCarthy, a joint venture of Minneapolis-based Mortenson and national builder McCarthy Building Companies, will oversee all construction-related activities on the stadium project.
Despite the team’s lease at the Oakland Coliseum being up after next season, the Athletics would still owe the city $45 million before it could make any move.
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.
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.
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.
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.