With Allegiant Stadium Moving To 100 Percent Capacity, Raiders Outline Parking Strategy Thursday
By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
Marc Badain knows parking will be a challenge at the new Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium.
But the Las Vegas Raiders president believes the 35,000 parking spaces within a mile of the 65,000-seat domed venue and the 22,000 fans who will walk from the Strip on the Hacienda Avenue bridge to the stadium will be enought to handle the daunting job of getting people into a stadium that did not allow fans to attend Raiders games last season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Badain covered many of the stadium parking issues in a six-minute video above after he along with Clark County Commissioner Michael Naft, RTC CEO M.J. Maynard and Mandalay Bay and Luxor President Chuck Bowling touched on the touchy topic of parking for a stadium that has only 2,500 on-site parking spaces.
The 35,000 parking spaces within a one-mile radius of Allegiant Stadium includes 13,000 spaces at multiple lots controlled by the Raiders and priced based on distance to the venue. Badain said the other 22,000 spaces are located at Strip corridor hotels and properties and neighboring businesses on the west side of Interstate 15.
Of the 13,000 parking spaces controlled by the Raiders, 6,500 will be designated for tailgating. The Raiders pre-game tailgating was a game day rite at the team’s old stadium home in Oakland, with Badain noting 2,500 active tailgates going on before those games in Alameda County.
Here’s a look at the stadium parking pricing here in Las Vegas for Allegiant Stadium:
A key number is that the Raiders one of out every three fans in the building will be walking from the Strip via Hacienda Avenue, which has a bridge spanning I-15. The bridge will be closed to car traffic on Raiders home game and stadium event days like the Garth Brooks concert that is sold out for the stadium July 10.
On the same day, Las Vegas-based UFC is holding a major fight show event at T-Mobile Arena, which is on the east side of I-15 about a mile or so from the football stadium.
There are no special transportation or parking plans specific for July 10 when the stadium will have 65,000 Garth Brooks fans and the arena will have 20,000 UFC fans.
RTC, the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, will chip in with its double-decker Deuce bus that travels up and down the Strip corridor with a stop near the Hacienda Avenue bridge. A 24-hour Deuce bus pass is $8.
The saving grace for the Raiders stadium parking challenge is that so many stadium fans will be visitors and won’t have cars to park. LVSportsBiz.com estimates that 40-50 percent of Raiders game attendees will be out-of-owners, which means they will walk 15 minutes from the Strip along Hacienda Avenue to the stadium or take Uber, Lyft, the Deuce bus or taxis. RTC is looking at having game-day bus service from the Las Vegas suburbs to the Raiders’ stadium like the one provided for Vegas Golden Knights hockey games at T-Mobile Arena. (By the way, it’s VGK vs Colorado for NHL playoffs Game 3 at T-Mobile Arena Friday.)
Naft said fans will be arriving at the stadium over a four-hour time period before the Raiders home games. But the bottlenecks and traffic jams will likely occur after the game.
“You might have a backup leaving,” Naft noted.
Parking was one of the oldest topics that the Raiders dealt with regarding the stadium, which received public funding of $750 million to build. The topic surfaced even before ground was broken in the stadium in November 2017.
“We are fortunate the Las Vegas resort corridor is so close to Allegiant Stadium,” Badain said.
The Raiders’ 17-game schedule includes nine regular season games and one preseason game.
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