The home stretch for completing a stadium development agreement with a firm price begins Thursday with the December Las Vegas Stadium Authority board meeting.
Allegiant Stadium
With the Raiders about to start building their new stadium in Las Vegas, a project that big seems destined to spark some spillover deals.
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 Raiders are still a few years away from throwing the pigskin in Las Vegas. But one investor group is getting in on the team’s neighborhood early – and it paid a premium.
Negotiations are expected to continue this month on a Las Vegas stadium joint-use agreement between the Oakland Raiders and UNLV.
The Oakland Raiders are close to announcing the selection of a Minneapolis firm with ties to a Henderson company as general contractor for the $1.9 billion, 65,000-seat domed football stadium it will build to begin play in Las Vegas in 2020.
In the first comments from either party about stadium development negotiations between the Raiders and the Adelson family, Las Vegas Sands Vice President Andy Abboud says the Raiders kept changing their minds on details that were all but settled.
Lawrence Epstein, a UFC senior executive, and Tito Tiberti, a construction executive, are expected to be named Thursday to the Las Vegas Stadium Authority board of directors.
The process of the Oakland Raiders relocating to Las Vegas took another step forward Tuesday when the Nevada Senate voted 16-5 in favor of Senate Bill 1.
Gov. Brian Sandoval took a break from Carson City politics Tuesday, opening the Nevada Governor’s Global Tourism Summit, receiving applause for his efforts in pursuing construction of a new football stadium in Las Vegas.
The Nevada Senate on Tuesday amended and passed a bill raising room taxes in Clark County to help fund a football stadium and convention center expansion in Las Vegas. The bill now moves to the Assembly.
Gov. Brian Sandoval said Tuesday he is glad lawmakers are asking tough questions about the proposed stadium project and acknowledged that some critics will never be satisfied that it will be good for Nevada’s economic development efforts.
One major professional sports league has broken the ice. Jim Murren, chairman and CEO of MGM Resorts International, said Monday he envisions the NFL and NBA following the NHL to the Las Vegas Strip in the near future.
Matt Youmans and Richard Velotta cover developments from the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee meeting Monday at UNLV.
At a special tourism infrastructure meeting intended to narrow the field of prospective stadium sites, the list of potential locations instead grew on Monday.
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