NFL Starts Building ‘Draft Theater’ For Its Player Draft Event Behind High Roller Wheel Next To Caesars Forum

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

The NFL is coming to Las Vegas to stage the college player draft event April 28-30 and work crews have already begun building something called the “Draft Theater” to house the stage where the players will be announced.

The draft theater is east of the High Roller observation wheel on the east side of the Strip. In fact, the theater, which looks like the frame of an airport hangar, is actually much closer to Koval Lane than it is to the Strip.  The “draft theater is on the south side of the Caesars Forum convention space built right before the COVID-19 pandemic struck.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, the public Las Vegas tourism agency, approved $2.4 million in public dollars to spend on putting on the NFL Draft.

There’s also the red carpet part of the draft where players will walk a red carpet on a platform built into the Bellagio Fountains on the Strip. That received a lot of attention.

The NFL originally planned to hold the Draft event in Las Vegas in April 2020. But the pandemic wiped out that event.

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