The Super Bowl was estimated to bring in at least $500 million in spending. And over the long weekend, spending could reach as high as $1.1 billion.
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A passenger screening record was set Monday at Harry Reid International Airport, according to the Transportation Security Administration.
The handoff from Phoenix officially set the countdown to the 2024 edition taking place Feb. 11, 2024, at Allegiant Stadium.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority will spend an estimated $1.3 million to bring the game back to Allegiant Stadium where the 2022 game was a sellout.
The LVCVA will offer free parking at convention center lots during the NFL Draft, but it is facing higher costs to stage the event.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority on Tuesday agreed to spend nearly $9 million to sponsor six sporting events at Allegiant Stadium over the next five years.
Allegiant says its naming rights deal with the Raiders for their $2 billion stadium will create travel and marketing opportunities for the low-cost carrier.
A new partnership will make the M Resort the “Official Raiders Team Headquarters Hotel,” and the property will get a new Raiders Bar & Grill as part of the deal.
The LVCVA board authorized $3 million in upfront funding to stage the Pac-12 Conference Football Championship Game in 2020 and 2021 at Allegiant Stadium.
When the Oakland Raiders selected a general contractor to build the planned 65,000-seat Las Vegas stadium, team executives said they wanted the best. And when Minneapolis-based M.A. Mortenson Construction began building sports facilities, company executives said they, too, wanted to be the best.
The Nevada Board of Regents in early January will get its first look at a proposed UNLV Joint-Use Agreement for the 65,000-seat domed football stadium being built by the Oakland Raiders after the university and the team resolved every major issue in negotiations that wrapped up last week.
Scores of people jammed the Clark County Government Center on Thursday looking for jobs and a way to sign up for them.
A consultant hired by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Campus Improvement Authority says a domed stadium on 42 acres at Tropicana Avenue and Koval Lane would not disrupt operations at McCarran International Airport. But a McCarran official said the FAA is still reviewing the stadium site.