Raiders Stadium Construction Site Installs COVID-19 Safety Signs After Worker Tested Positive For Coronavirus
By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
The building contractor team of Mortenson-McCarthy at Raiders stadium has installed “COVID-19 stay safe and health” signs along the perimeter of the Allegiant Stadium construction site and placed a sanitizer station at one worker entrance.
The health message signs came after the Mortenson-McCarthy joint venture contacted the Las Vegas stadium board Wednesday to inform the public panel that a worker tested positive for COVID-19 and was self-isolating for 14 days.
The same day, LVSportsBiz.com visited the $1.97 billion stadium project site and saw workers sitting together at a lunch break.
Since that day, COVID-19 signs were installed on the east side of the domed stadium and on the west side, too. Gov. Steve Sisolak said construction is essential business in Nevada and can continue under the statewide business shutdown, which includes the Las Vegas hotel-casinos, clubs and bars.
Sunday was a more quiet day at the 62.5-acre stadium site, which is on the west side of Interstate 15 across from Mandalay Bay hotel-casino. LVSportsBiz.com did not see as many workers at the site today as it did on Wednesday.
Here is much of the Mortenson-McCarthy statement from last week:
The Raiders say the stadium will be ready July 31. The 65,000-seat venue, being built with $750 million in public dollars, is scheduled to host a Garth Brooks concert Aug. 22 and a UNLV vs. Cal football game Aug. 29.
The coronavirus health threat prompted the NFL to scrub the public draft events in Las Vegas that were scheduled for the Strip April 23-25.
The NFL drew lots of recent attention with high-profile trades and free agent signings, with Tom Brady moving to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Will the coronavirus affect the NFL schedule? It’s unclear as the future is uncertain in this anxious time of the spread of coronavirus in the U.S. and worldwide. The Summer Olympics, which were scheduled to end Aug. 9, were postponed to 2021. Who knows when the NBA, NHL, MLB and MLS games will be?
About a half-mile to the east, the Strip was quiet as it has been since the hotel-casinos have closed.
Here are two guys working a drone in front of Planet Hollywood across from the Bellagio.
There are more than 137,000 total COVID-19 cases in the U.S. And 2,400 people have lost their lives to the coronavirus. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, said 100,000 Americans could die from the novel coronavirus. People do not have an immunity against this particular coronavirus. President Trump has extended social distancing guidelines through April 30 in an attempt to stem the spread of COVID-19.
The state of Nevada just cleared the 1,000 mark for confirmed COVID-19 cases Monday, with 15 people dying from the virus.
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