The Las Vegas Stadium Authority Board met on July 18 to discuss construction updates, including the newest partnership with AEG Facilities. AEG will be responsible for the stadium’s operations, as well as scheduling events on the days the Raiders are not playing.
The Raiders Stadium continues to be on schedule despite taking down trusses off the top of the stadium for realignment. Stadium show host Ed Graney and business reporter Rick Velotta go over all of the updates to the Las Vegas Stadium and what workers have been able to accomplish despite the complication.
Much like the Arizona Cardinals field, the Raiders will also be playing on a field tray that can be retracted in order to maintain real grass. Vegas Nation host Cassie Soto and Las Vegas Review- Journal reporter Rick Velotta discuss the latest updates regrading the Las Vegas Stadium as well as the groundbreaking of the Raiders headquarters in Henderson.
The Oakland Raiders will play in Las Vegas when their team’s move is completed in 2020. Former Raiders’ defensive end and Las Vegan, James Harris, says fans will follow and support the team “to the moon”.
The Oakland Raiders and the Nfl are being sued by the city of Oakland. The Raiders may need somewhere to play in 2019. Ed Graney and Rick Velotta talk about where the Raiders may play next year and the latest progress on the new stadium being built in Las Vegas.
The city of Oakland has filed a lawsuit against the NFL and the Raiders stating that the move to Las Vegas is illegal. Raiders beat writer Michael Gehlken discusses future options for the Raiders in 2019 with Review-Journal’s Sports Digital Producer Elaine Emerson.
The $1.8 billion Las Vegas stadium project continues to grow with workers taking the project vertically on the site at Russell Road and Interstate 15.
Mortenson Construction Co. and McCarthy Building Cos. crews will continue to install the 52 65-ton truss assemblies that will hold the exterior skin of the stadium and support the translucent polymer roof.
Committee work also is well underway with the Las Vegas Stadium Authority continuing to meet every other month and the Southern Nevada Sporting Event Committee preparing a report to Gov. Brian Sandoval and the Nevada Legislature for how to develop events to keep the stadium busy when it isn’t hosting Las Vegas Raiders and UNLV Rebels football games.
The public can watch progress on the stadium with a new 24-hour camera installed by the Las Vegas Review-Journal atop the Panorama Towers and focused on the site.
Review-Journal sports columnist Ed Graney and business reporter Rick Velotta discussed progress in a new Vegas Nation Stadium Show.
