“It’s too early to figure that part out yet.
Meanwhile, the A’s have been exploring sites along the Strip, in downtown Las Vegas, Henderson and Summerlin.
Allegiant Stadium is in unincorporated Clark County. Kaval said the baseball stadium’s location – the A’s are considering nearly two dozen potential sites – would help determine a private-public partnership. (Daniel Clark/The Nevada Independent)Īllegiant Stadium is located on 62 acres along the west side of Interstate 15, across from Mandalay Bay, and has large lanai doors that open to offer views of the Las Vegas Strip. Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, as seen on Thursday, June 17, 2021. A special session of the Legislature was needed to approve an increase in the Strip’s hotel room tax. – $750 million – to help the Raiders develop the 65,000-seat glass-domed facility. Las Vegas has the distinction of providing the single-largest-ever pot of public money for a stadium project in the U.S. The unanswered question hanging over the process like a fog bank above San Francisco Bay is how much the A’s would seek in public financing from Southern Nevada to build the stadium. The A’s contract to play in the nearly 47,000-seat Coliseum expires in 2024, so a time element is in play. At least two sites on the Strip, behind Bally’s Las Vegas and across from the Sahara, are being considered. The other path leads to an estimated $1 billion retractable roof ballpark with 33,000-to-35,000 seats located on a yet-to-be-determined Southern Nevada location. A preliminary vote on the 34,000-seat stadium by Oakland’s City Council is scheduled for Tuesday. But the A’s and the city are roughly $500 million apart in negotiations on a term sheet. One path is a waterfront ballpark in Oakland as part of a $12 billion development at the Howard Terminal near Jack London Square. However, when this dance music ends, the possibility exists that the A’s will remain in Oakland.Ī’s President David Kaval said the franchise is on parallel paths toward vacating the 55-year-old Oakland ballpark that also formerly housed the Raiders.
The AFC West team launches its second season inside the $1.9 billion Allegiant Stadium next month. The situation surrounding the Athletics – often referred to as the A’s – has far different scenarios and circumstances than the 2016 endeavor by the now-Las Vegas Raiders.
Less than five years after bringing the NFL’s Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas, Southern Nevada is dancing with Major League Baseball’s Oakland Athletics, the Northern California city’s last professional sports franchise, which is seeking to flee the crumbling Oakland Coliseum for possibly a new multi-billion dollar stadium in the desert.