Oakland Athletics Invite Las Vegas Aviators Fans To Offer Opinions On Ballpark Idea In Las Vegas
By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
If you have 10 minutes to fill out a survey and if you’re a Las Vegas Aviators baseball fan, the Oakland Athletics would like to hear from you.
The A’s say the team is considering moving to Las Vegas and thinking about building a new baseball park. So, they’ve hired a third-party company to figure out the demand for Major League Baseball and a new ballpark in Las Vegas. The Aviators are the Triple A minor league affiliate of the Oakland Athletics. Here’s the survey invitation sent to Aviators fans.
The Athletics are also negotiating with the city of Oakland about a proposed baseball park project on the Oakland waterfront.
Oakland Athletics President Dave Kaval has visited the Las Vegas market several times this year to check out potential ballpark sites along the Strip corridor, in Summerlin and in Henderson. But the survey focuses on one area — the Strip:
But the Athletics wanted fans here in Las Vegas to know, “Please note that no decisions about the potential relocation of the A’s or the construction of a new ballpark in Las Vegas have been made.”
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The Athletics brass have talked with metro Las Vegas political and business leaders. But it’s unclear how much public money the baseball team is requesting to build a ballpark that will likely need a retractable roof and cost in the $1 billion range.
One fan’s perspective:
The public in Southern Nevada contributed $750 million to help build the Raiders’ dome stadium on the west side of the Strip across from Mandalay Bay.
Here is the link to the survey.
