New Las Vegas Stadium

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New Las Vegas Stadium
Location Paradise, Nevada
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Owner Las Vegas Stadium Authority (LVSA)
Operator Las Vegas Athletics
Capacity 33,000
Surface Grass
Construction
Broke ground April 2025 (planned)
Opened January 2028 (planned)
Construction cost $1.5 billion
Architect Schrock KC Architecture
General contractor Mortenson-McCarthy Joint Venture
Tenants
Las Vegas Athletics (MLB) (2028-future)

The New Las Vegas Stadium is a planned retractable roof ballpark to be built on the site of the Tropicana Las Vegas in Paradise, Nevada. It is planned as the new home stadium of the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB), should the team relocate from Oakland to Las Vegas.

The new stadium would mark the first time that the Athletics franchise has played in a new stadium of their own without another sports team tenant since the completion of Shibe Park in 1909. It is proposed to open for the 2028 MLB season.

Background

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See also: Oakland Athletics proposed relocation to Las Vegas

On May 11, 2021, Major League Baseball permitted the Oakland Athletics to explore relocation possibilities should the team fail to get a replacement stadium for the Oakland Coliseum from the city of Oakland by 2024 and among these relocation possibilities included the Las Vegas Valley.[1] In April 2023, negotiations between the City of Oakland and the Athletics organization for a new ballpark ended, with the team moving forward with a new $1.5 billion 35,000-seat retractable stadium initially at the former site of the Wild Wild West Gambling Hall & Hotel.[2] On May 4, Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo announced a legislative package for the Athletics' proposed ballpark.[3][4] On May 9, the Athletics changed the proposal to a 30,000-seat partially retractable stadium on the site of the Tropicana Las Vegas, with plans to demolish the Tropicana and build a new 1,500-room hotel and casino. The project is expected to cost $1.5 billion.[5]

On May 26, the Athletics released renderings of the 30,000-seat ballpark in Las Vegas to the public designed by Schrock KC Architecture.[6] By May 29, the legislative package for the stadium known as SB509 was drafted in the Nevada Legislature for a potential vote though it wouldn't come until after Lombardo issued a special session on June 7 and was later renamed SB1. The legislative package was passed by a majority vote in the Legislature and signed into law by Lombardo on June 15.[7]

History

2023

Three days after SB1 was approved, Bally's chairman Soo Kim told KTNV-TV that the Tropicana might not be razed for the ballpark until two years later into construction and that there was a scenario where part of the resort-casino could remain after the ballpark is complete. He also noted that the ballpark would include a new casino resort and a separate, adjacent sports-themed attraction.[8] On June 21, the Athletics officially began the process of relocation to Las Vegas through a relocation application to MLB being written up before being filed, submitted, and put to an owners' vote.[9]

Two weeks after the bill's approval, the Athletics revealed that Bally's would provide 3 to 4 more acres of land on the Tropicana for the ballpark with plans to hire a design architect, a construction firm and a project manager amidst concerns about its size and a statement from Clark County spokeswoman Jennifer Cooper saying her county can't issue $120 million yet until other agreements are finalized and the Athletics deposit $100 million in private money for the project.[10]

In July 2023, Steve Hill of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) revealed that the Athletics would not fully use $380 million in public funding to finance the new ballpark at the Tropicana. Instead, the team would use $340 million for the ballpark.[11] Two days later, Hill said that the Las Vegas Stadium Authority would meet on August 24 to detail the process of the Athletics relocation.[12] Brad Schrock, the head director of the Athletics' ballpark design, said that the project could have up to 33,000 seats.[13] By July 27, Schrock also revealed that the ballpark would turn four acres of its site into a plaza similar to T-Mobile Arena.[14] Additionally, the Athletics announced that they would select Gensler or the joint bid by HNTB (which participated in the construction of Allegiant Stadium) and Bjarke Ingels Group as the design team for the ballpark by November for the new renderings with the latter previously involved in the scrapped Howard Terminal ballpark plans in Oakland.[15]

In August, Athletics president Dave Kaval revealed that the New Las Vegas Stadium would have a capacity of 33,000 seats as opposed to 30,000 in the initial plans.[16] On August 21, the Athletics announced that the Minneapolis-based Mortenson | McCarthy would serve as the construction manager for the ballpark.[17]

In September, the Athletics hired Creative Artists Agency sub-division CAA ICON as the consulting firm for the ballpark in overseeing management of the project such as the architect and managers.[18] By September 13, the ballpark was announced to be climate-controlled and contain a retractable roof to allow for an open-air atmosphere and protect spectators from the heat.[19]

In October, the Las Vegas Stadium Authority revealed that construction for the new stadium was slated to tentatively begin in April 2025 with a completion date of January 2028 and a 30-year, rent-free lease for the Athletics along with the option for the team to buy the stadium and pay for all operations to maintain "facility standards".[20] The organization also voted to approve a $700,000 retainer for the law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP.[21]

See also

References

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