Raiders Stadium Construction Schedule Says Last Seat Installed May 2020

By ALAN SNEL

LVSportsBiz.com

 

The Raiders are building a $1.8 billion stadium with $750 million in public money from Southern Nevada and it will be ready by summer 2020 when the NFL team starts playing in the venue that will have 107 suites, 62,228 seats and 1.5 million square feet. It will sit on a 62.5-acre site on the west side of Interstate 15 across from Mandalay Bay.

 

 

Here are the milestones in a construction schedule to keep you up to date.

 

This schedule was submitted by Raiders stadium executive Don Webb to the local Las Vegas stadium authority for Thursday’s meeting.  (It should be noted the stadium authority’s website lists the meeting’s materials, including a “personal seat license marketing plan” but when a reader tries to click the link for the PSL marketing plan it is not available.)

 

Groundbreaking: Nov. 13, 2017

 

 

Mass excavation: Jan. 2, 2018

 

Start foundations: March 12, 2018

 

Cranes on site: March 13, 2018

 

Started elevated concrete structure: April 16, 2018

 

First steel put in place: July 19, 2018

 

Start slab on grade construction: July 23, 2018

 

Start structural steel: Aug. 13, 2018

 

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Start precast stadium erection: Sept. 11, 2018

 

Setting the first precast stadia in place: Dec. 20, 2018

 

Start drywall and interior finishes: March 20, 2019

 

Start of the curtain wall: April 11, 2019

 

Steel topping out: May 2, 2019

 

First seat installed: May 3, 2019

 

ETFE roof installation begins: Aug. 23, 2019

 

ETFE roof installation complete: Dec. 30, 2019

 

Last seat installed: May 4, 2020

 

Field installation: May 5, 2020

 

The stadium board meets Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Clark County government center.

 

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Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.