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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
So far, the Athletics’ planned stadium for the Strip in Las Vegas has been mostly known for the scant details about the stadium.
Adding to that storyline is that there will be no Las Vegas Stadium Authority Board meeting in February. One was previously set for Thursday Feb. 15, but it has been scrubbed.
Now, the next stadium board meeting is scheduled for March 21.
Athletics owner John Fisher talked publicly about the A’s stadium for the first time in Las Vegas Jan. 24 at a local chamber event where Fisher said he is looking for local capital and investors to help fund the $1.5 billion, 33,000-seat stadium at the Tropicana hotel-casino site at the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue.
The only stadium visuals provided by the Athletics have been whimsical drawings of a stadium on the site, but the images did not depict the actual look of the A’s stadium. LVSportsBiz.com does not publish those drawings in our news stories because they do not show the actual planned stadium.
Fisher and A’s President Dave Kaval have not even told the public whether the stadium is planned with a fixed roof or a retractable roof. The A’s want to build the stadium on nine acres of the overall 35-acre site.
After his Jan. 24 chamber event presentation, Fisher said Bally’s, which owns the 1957-circa Tropicana Hotel, has plans for a new hotel building on the stadium site and both the hotel and ballpark projects can be presented in one site plan to the public.
The A’s stadium project has troubled many local Las Vegas residents because the team is receiving $380 million in free government assistance and yet the the Major League Baseball team has shared very little information about the stadium with the public.
The A’s hope to start demolition of the Tropicana hotel 35-acre site in late 2024 and then start construction in 2025 for a planned opening in 2028.
The A’s will be in the Las Vegas area to play two preseason games at the Howard Hughes Corporation-owned Las Vegas Ballpark in Summerlin.