Published on: October 17, 2024, 12:27h.
Last updated on: October 17, 2024, 12:35h.
We still lack a comprehensive financial strategy from A’s proprietor John Fisher for erecting his team’s new stadium on the iconic Las Vegas Strip, but we do possess some fresh designs illustrating how the ballpark and an adjacent Bally’s Crop. casino resort might appear if they are eventually constructed.
The renderings, presented to Clark County by an Oakland-based LLC named Athletics StadCo., outline the $1.5 billion, 33K-capacity, 373K-square-foot stadium rising 290 feet tall close to the middle of the former Tropicana site, encompassing nine acres of its 35-acre expanse.
Encircling the ballpark, as per the plans, will be a 90K square-foot Bally’s casino resort erected on 14.7 acres of the premises. It is anticipated to house 1,500 slot machines, 75 table games, a poker room, along with a 12K-square-foot sportsbook in addition to dining, shopping, beverages, a day club and nightclub, and 110K square feet of gathering space.
Three hospitality towers, comprising more than 3,000 rooms, are purportedly set to ascend 495 feet into the heavens (more than 200 feet taller than the nearby MGM Grand) from the site’s northeast and southwest corners.
The plans also propose 2,500 parking spaces distributed across two garages – one at the northwest edge and the other at the southeast edge – as well as a ground-level lot at the southwest edge.
The planners acknowledge that a capacity crowd (or more likely) concert would necessitate over double the amount of parking spaces (5,370), with 100 of the 2,500 spaces already allotted to the A’s headquarters, which will encompass 60K square feet of the development’s office section.
The designs presuppose that over 9,000 attendees will trek to the stadium from nearby resorts or their parking facilities.
The blueprints also underscore that other transportation alternatives to and from the stadium consist of the Vegas Loop (“Tesla Tunnels”), taxis and ride-sharing services, buses, and limousines. As if this were not already public knowledge.
Every segment of the proposed complex will be erected in stages, according to the plans, with the ballpark and parking structure erected initially, followed by the integrated resort established in three phases.
That’s if they come to fruition.
The A’s profess that construction on their stadium will commence in the second quarter of 2025 to ensure readiness for the start of the 2028 MLB season. No specified timeline was provided for the construction of the casino resort.