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.
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Oakland Raiders President Marc Badain is protecting what’s going to happen at Monday’s Las Vegas stadium groundbreaking event like it’s the playbook for the team’s game next week against the New England Patriots.
The executive director of the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum Authority says he hasn’t spoken with representatives of the Raiders since mid-summer and there haven’t been any discussions about the team playing at the facility through 2020.
The Oakland Raiders may be negotiating to play at Oakland Alameda County Coliseum through 2020, but that doesn’t worry Clark County Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak.
The Clark County Commission will undertake a high-impact project review of the planned $1.9 billion, 65,000-seat Las Vegas Stadium when it meets Wednesday morning. Catch up on stadium construction news in the first presentation of the “Vegas Nation Stadium Show.”
Contractors hired by the Oakland Raiders are drilling on the site of the planned 65,000-seat domed football stadium, hoping to find answers underground.
Scores of people jammed the Clark County Government Center on Thursday looking for jobs and a way to sign up for them.
Negotiations are expected to continue this month on a Las Vegas stadium joint-use agreement between the Oakland Raiders and UNLV.
The Oakland Raiders and local officials are no further along than they were a year ago in locking down a key aspect of the Las Vegas stadium project: how much it will cost.
A discussion on UNLV’s use of the 65,000-seat NFL stadium being built by the Oakland Raiders at Interstate 15 and Russell Road is on Thursday’s Las Vegas Stadium Authority board agenda.
The Las Vegas Stadium Authority unanimously approved the stadium lease agreement with the Oakland Raiders Thursday afternoon.
Southern Nevada construction industry experts say whoever ends up building the planned 65,000-seat stadium for the Las Vegas Raiders will face a massive challenge to get it done by the opening of the 2020 NFL season.
When NFL owners gather in Phoenix beginning Monday, they’re expected to consider a vote to relocate the Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas.
It appears it isn’t going to matter that the Oakland Raiders and the Las Vegas Stadium Authority won’t have a lease agreement in place when NFL owners meet in Phoenix at the end of the month to consider relocation of the team to Southern Nevada.
More details of a proposed lease agreement between the Las Vegas Stadium Authority and the Oakland Raiders are expected to emerge Thursday when the 11-member board meets.