By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
The Las Vegas Raiders will be playing their NFL home games on Sundays (and an occasional Monday night) at the imposing, black-exterior stadium with the Darth Vader look about a 15-minute walk from the Strip.
But the team will be spending most of its time in suburban Henderson 11 miles away from the 65,000-seat domed stadium at the Raiders’ spanking new training center and headquarters across the street from the Henderson Executive Airport, not too far from St. Rose Parkway.
With the coronavirus pandemic gripping America and the NFL ordering teams’ summer training camps to be held at the clubs’ home bases, the Raiders will be spending more time than ever at the new headquarters and home facility in Henderson.
Here’s the location.
Building designer Leo A Daly worked with Manica Architecture to create the 336,227-foot facility on 30 acres with another 25 acres open for development. The construction cost at the 55-acre site for the training center/HQ was $158 million. Here’s a summary of the Raiders facility and HQ from the Leo A Daly website:
Brandon Doll, Raiders senior vice president for strategy & business development, used LinkedIn to show Raiders headquarters photos and images that were available from the team’s website.
LVSportsBiz.com covered the training center/HQ groundbreaking event 18 months ago. In much the same way that many Golden Knights players and staffers live in Summerlin near the VGK headquarters in Downtown Summerlin, expect many Raiders players and workers to live in Henderson near the Raiders training center/HQ.
All of a sudden, Henderson, the suburban city that has been the little sibling to Las Vegas, is now a sports hub.
Not only will the Raiders home base be open soon, the city of Henderson has also cut two major deals with the NHL Vegas Golden Knights to build a $25 million two-rink community ice center on 3.2 acres at Water Street and Atlantic Avenue and an $84 million 6,000-seat arena called the Henderson Events Center out of the Henderson Pavilion at 200. S. Green Valley Parkway.
The city of Henderson gave the Golden Knights $10.75 million for the community ice center and earmarked $42 million in public money for the $84 million Henderson Events Center project. It should be noted that the city of Henderson sold the 55 acres to the Raiders for $6 million — which was $6 million less than the $12 million that the land was valued at.
Here are some renderings of the new hockey arena in Henderson from the Henderson City Council meeting agenda for June 16.
Here’s the location of the Henderson Silver Knights arena, which will be used by the city of Henderson for other music and cultural events.
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LVSportsBiz.com visited the Raiders stadium site Wednesday morning. The venue remains on schedule to be ready July 31 in less than two months.
Here’s a Raiders video screen grab.
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