The Raiders have approached Clark County officials about using 20 acres of the 100-acre Tropicana Detention Basin for event day employee parking,
Mick Akers
Mick joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal in November 2018 and covers sports business and transportation. He previously worked at the Las Vegas Sun covering a variety of beats including transportation, business, gaming, and city and county government. Prior to that, he worked at the Pahrump Valley Times, where he was named the Nevada Press Association’s Outstanding Journalist in the intermediate category for his coverage of the Lamar Odom brothel overdose situation, rural healthcare and more. Mick was born in Texas but grew up in Las Vegas, attending UNLV’s Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies where he was a member of the Kappa Tau Alpha National Journalism Society.
The outer shell of the Raiders’ new stadium sitting off Russell Road and Interstate 15 is now almost fully enclosed by its surrounding curtain wall.