Engineers Say No Damage At Raiders Stadium, Headquarters Construction Sites From SoCal Earthquake

By Alan Snel

LVSportsBiz.com

 

The Raiders had multiple teams of engineers at their stadium construction site in Las Vegas and also at their headquarters construction location in Henderson after the SoCal earthquake rattled Southern Nevada Friday and the engineers found no damage at both sites.

 

The 7.1 earthquake centered near Ridgecrest, California in the desert struck around 8:20 p.m. Friday before the NBA decided to suspend its Summer League games on opening day of the 11-day run at Thomas & Mack Center and Cox Pavilion on the UNLV campus. The WNBA Las Vegas Aces also suspended their game with the Washington Mystics at halftime at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.

 

LVSportsBiz,com learned the Raiders had engineers at their stadium site on the west side if Interstate 15 across the highway from the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino. They found no damage from the earthquake. The Raiders say the $1.8 billion stadium project will be completed July 31, 2020. The Raiders are playing the 2019 NFL season at their Oakland Coliseum.

 

Meanwhile, the Raiders headquarters construction site near the Henderson Executive Airport is well underway after a January 2019 groundbreaking. 

 

There was also no earthquake damage at that $100 million headquarters site.

Raiders President Marc Badain in front of Raiders headquarters rendering during the groundbreaking event in January.

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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.