Raiders Pick AEG Facilities to Run Las Vegas Stadium; AEG Was Partner In Building T-Mobile Arena
By Alan Snel
LVSportsBiz.com
Anschutz Entertainment Group’s facilities division was picked by the NFL Raiders to run the football team’s 65,000-seat domed stadium on the west side of Interstate 15 across from Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
AEG Facilities, which has experience in owning, operating or consulting with 150 worldwide venues, will be charged with managing the Raiders stadium’s operations from guest services, event operations, booking and security to ticketing, finance and human resources.
The one-stop management operations of AEG Facilities include hiring and training of the venue’s full-time staff while planning and executing the stadium’s grand opening schedule of events.
Bob Newman, AEG Facilities president, chatted with LVSportsBiz.com this morning on AEG running the Raiders stadium. The venue is scheduled to be complete July 31, 2020 and host Raiders and UNLV football games and the Las Vegas Bowl. It’s a $1.8 billion stadium project, including about $1.34 billion for the stadium itself.
AEG Facilities already manages the Coliseum where the Raiders play in Oakland, so the Las Vegas Stadium assignment is an extension of that existing business relationship, Newman.
“We have a familiarity with each other,” he said.
Plus, AEG partnered with MGM Resorts International in building the $375 million T-Mobile Arena behind New York-New York, so the Los Angeles-based organization has “strong ties to the region.”
Newman said the venue will serve everything from meetings and weddings to Super Bowls besides the Raiders and UNLV football games.
He did not know how many full-time employees will be hired from the local Las Vegas market, but he expected locals to play major roles in operating the venue.
“It’s in the DNA o our company to be part of the fabric of the community we’re in,” Newman said.
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