Meeting before the Nevada Gaming Control Board on Wednesday, operators Bally’s Corp. addressed closure times, slot machines, stained glass and employees.
Athletics
An opera between games? Probably not. But the A’s ballpark renderings look familiar to arts enthusiasts.
The Oakland Athletics’ vision of their Las Vegas ballpark has came into focus with the release of new stadium renderings that resemble the Sydney Opera House.
The Oakland Athletics finished with baseball’s worst record last year at 50-112 and have the lowest regular-season win total at the Westgate SuperBook at 56½.
MGM Resorts International CEO Bill Hornbuckle said he’s seen multiple versions of renderings of the Oakland Athletics’ proposed Las Vegas ballpark.
A second education group is challenging a Nevada Legislature bill that provides public funding to help build an Athletics ballpark on the Las Vegas Strip.
The nearly 60-year-old resort on the Las Vegas Strip is scheduled to be demolished to make room for a new Athletics ballpark.
With design work still ongoing, Oakland Athletics owner John Fisher didn’t reveal specifics about what the planned ballpark would include.
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.
The A’s plan to build a $1.5 billion, 33,000-seat stadium on 9 acres at the Tropicana site on the Strip, with an opening set for 2028.
MLB owners meetings end Thursday in Arlington, Texas. The Oakland Athletics need 75 percent of the 3o owners to vote in favor of their move to Las Vegas.
Schools Over Stadiums, a PAC backed by a teachers union, claims the Oakland Athletics’ stadium funding bill violates the state constitution.
The company that owns the land where the Tropicana sits may invest more than the $175 million it has committed to a ballpark for the Oakland Athletics.
Construction on the Oakland Athletics’ Las Vegas ballpark is scheduled to begin in April 2025 and be completed in January 2028.
A youth movement left the Athletics with the most losses since moving to Oakland in 1968, and things aren’t likely to change for the foreseeable future.