The nearly 60-year-old resort on the Las Vegas Strip is scheduled to be demolished to make room for a new Athletics ballpark.
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“Luckily we make more money with one exhibition soccer game at the Coliseum than we do throughout the entire A’s season,” Leigh Hanson, Mayor Sheng Thao’s chief of staff, said.
With design work still ongoing, Oakland Athletics owner John Fisher didn’t reveal specifics about what the planned ballpark would include.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame lists the Oakland or Philadelphia Athletics as the primary team for 14 of its inductees, a testament to the franchise’s history.
The Oakland A’s need a place to play for the 2025-27 MLB seasons. A stadium under construction in a Utah suburb has their attention.
The Oakland Athletics are making site visits as they try to figure out where they will play once their Oakland Coliseum lease is up after the 2024 season.
The next Las Vegas Stadium Authority board meeting scheduled for Thursday doesn’t include any agenda items related to the Oakland Athletics’ Las Vegas ballpark.
The A’s lobbyists filing is centered on Schools Over Stadiums not providing the full text of Senate Bill 1, the stadium funding bill, in their petition referendum.
The Athletics had until Jan. 15 to get a binding agreement for a new stadium deal in place, or MLB planned to remove the team from its revenue sharing system.
Word from multiple sources familiar with John Fisher’s design plans for the future A’s ballpark is that the owner has been talking for months of developing an art program in Las Vegas.
The Oakland Athletics have agreed to pay Alameda County the $45 million they owe for their 50 percent of the Coliseum site. The team made the purchase in 2019.
Oakland Athletics team executives have decided to delay the planned Monday event to unveil new drawings of the proposed stadium.
Athletics pitcher Ken Waldichuk, who pitched for the Aviators in 2022, had surgery this offseason and is in physical therapy after having elbow discomfort.
The updated renderings could include some form of a retractable roof and/or a retractable wall for the $1.5 billion, 33,000-seat stadium.
Las Vegas Events and the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association are happy with NFR at Thomas & Mack Center, but the allure of higher capacity at the A’s stadium is attractive.
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