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LVCVA Board Approves Another $525,000 For NFL Draft Slated For April 28-30 On Strip

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

Another $525,000 in public dollars have been approved Tuesday to be spent on the NFL Draft later this month after $2.4 million was approved two years ago for the sports event on the Strip.

The governing board for Las Vegas’ public tourism agency, the LVCVA, gave the OK for the $525,000 expenditure after board members were informed that the money was needed because of more transportation needs and security protocols in light of “higher than anticipated attendance of NFL prospects and other guests.”

Here’s the wording straight from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) meeting agenda:

The LVCVA had already approved $2.4 million for the NFL Draft, which will shut down the center of the Strip and be held behind the High Roller observation wheel next to the Caesars Forum convention building. The NFL’s “Draft Theater” with the stage for the selected football players is being assembled and extends to the east near Koval Road. Take a look.

Clark County Commissioner Michael Naft, whose district includes the NFL Draft site at Flamingo Road and Las Vegas Boulevard, said the projected visitors for the Draft is in the 300,000-600,000 range. Keep in mind this Draft event was originally scheduled for April 2020, but was wiped out by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here are some of the NFL Draft renderings of the “Draft Theater” and general site next to Caesars Forum:

 

The Bellagio fountains on the other side of the Strip will be included in the NFL Draft event as a place to serve as a red carpet.

The players will walk the “red carpet” on a platform installed in the fountains. Here’s a look at that:


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Alan Snel: Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.
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