The Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee has posted four draft recommendations for its final report to Gov. Brian Sandoval, but the most prominent one — on proposed stadium financing — is “pending” and likely will be the meat of the committee’s Thursday afternoon’s meeting at UNLV.
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman knows a thing or two about long-shot bets, and on the issue of where to build a $1.9 billion domed football stadium in Southern Nevada, she’s backing a big one.
Developers proposing a 65,000-seat, $1.9 billion domed football stadium have said they want to move the process along quickly, now that they’ve agreed on prospective sites.
The Las Vegas Sands Corp. chairman and CEO said his company’s board rejected the funding of a 65,000-seat dome in Southern Nevada, so his family will contribute at least $650 million to the $1.9 billion project themselves. The gaming executive says the stadium project is critical to the city’s tourism economy and that a Las Vegas Convention Center expansion isn’t.
The 62 acres identified as the top choice to build a $1.9 billion, 65,000-seat domed football stadium is being sold by a consortium of banks that foreclosed on the land in 2009.
If a $1.9 billion stadium financing plan is approved by Nevada lawmakers in a fall special session, the Raiders expect to present the proposal and a relocation request to the NFL in January.
Developers of a proposed 65,000-seat football stadium have zeroed in on a site and a $1.9 billion budget — and they told a special committee Thursday that if $750 million in hotel room tax revenue isn’t authorized for the project, the dome that could bring the NFL’s Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas won’t be built.
Las Vegas Sands Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson on Monday challenged MGM Resorts International Chairman and CEO Jim Murren’s support of a proposed $1.4 billion upgrade of the Las Vegas Convention Center, calling a new stadium backed by Sands a higher priority for Southern Nevada’s tourism economy.
The name “Nighthawks,” featured in the closing scene of the old-time hockey movie “Slapshot” starring Paul Newman, was the name of a fictional team in Minnesota.
Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis confirmed Thursday that team representatives toured the Reno area for training camp sites should the NFL franchise move to Las Vegas.
