By ALAN SNEL
LVSportsBiz.com
Clark County Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak told LVSportsBiz.com Wednesday that he didn’t think the Bali Hai Golf Club site will be part of the Raiders stadium parking proposal, which he said comes before county commissioners at a Sept. 4 commission meeting.
Sisolak said he “assumes” the Bali Hai golf course — which was the subject of a federal lawsuit against Clark County — was not included in the stadium parking proposal because he has not heard any update about the golf course.
The Raiders have spent the past year combing the area around the $1.8 billion stadium site looking for parking because the 62-acre site has room for about 3,000 cars — about 13,000 parking spaces shy of the more than 16,000 spaces required by Clark County for the 65,000-seat domed venue.
In March, Raiders President Marc Badain told the Las Vegas stadium board that the NFL team was finalizing land deals that would offer 27,000 parking spaces within a mile and a half of the Raiders stadium site. Here’s a story on the stadium parking from that March 1 stadium authority session.
Last year, Sisolak, who is the Democratic nominee for governor, told LVSportsBiz.com that the Raiders planned to build a pedestrian bridge spanning Interstate 15 in between Hacienda and Russell roads to help fans reach the stadium site that is set to open in late July 2020.
Parking has been a thorny issue for the stadium plan. The Raiders have considered everything from using the UNLV parking lots two miles to the east to the Bali Hai golf course at 5160 S. Las Vegas Blvd., just south of the Russell Road intersection.
But the feds sued Clark County last year because the Department of Justice alleged the county undervalued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management land that was being leased by Clark County to gambler Billy Walters for the golf club.
The Raiders were looking at surrounding properties on the west side of the interstate near the stadium, but property owners were jacking up the asking prices in light of the parking crunch issue, Sisolak had said.
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LVSportsBiz.com reached out to Badain via email, but did not hear back Wednesday.
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