The Oakland Athletics met with Bay Area officials Thursday to discuss extending the team’s lease at the Oakland Coliseum.
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MGM Resorts International CEO Bill Hornbuckle said he’s seen multiple versions of renderings of the Oakland Athletics’ proposed Las Vegas ballpark.
Oakland Athletics brass plan to meet with Bay Area officials this week to discuss extending the MLB team’s lease at the Coliseum.
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman went viral after comments she made during an interview suggesting that she wished the A’s could work out a deal to stay in the Bay Area.
“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 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.
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.
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.
Globe Life Field, which sits on 13 acres with a fully retractable roof, features many elements the Oakland Athletics are looking for in a Las Vegas ballpark.
A provision in the A’s relocation approval noted that if owner John Fisher sold the team before moving to Las Vegas that he would have to pay MLB 20 percent of the sale price.
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