Days Of Our Stadiums: Athletics Start Talks With City Of Oakland About Playing At Coliseum From 2025-27 Before Moving To New Stadium In Las Vegas in 2028
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com, Publisher-Writer
Well, let’s see what the Oakland Athletics have accomplished in their move to Las Vegas.
In June, won $380 million in government assistance from the state of Nevada.
In November, the Athletics’ move to Vegas was approved by Major League Baseball.
In January, Tropicana hotel owner Bally’s told workers the circa hotel-casino is closing April 2.
And on Thursday, the Athletics began talks with the city of Oakland about extending their lease at the Coliseum for three years for 2025, 2026 and 2027 before the A’s move to Las Vegas.
It looks like nothing this MLB franchise does has been smooth.
In fact, on the day that the team and Oakland began talks on the Coliseum lease extension, a prominent developer in Salt Lake City unveiled plans for a mixed-use development that would include a Major League Baseball stadium.
The twist in the Salt Lake City stadium plan unveiling is that the Athletics have not shared their stadium drawings with the Las Vegas public. The A’s say they are building a 33,000-seat, $1.5 billion stadium on acres of the 35-acre Tropicana hotel site at Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue.
MGM Resorts International, the biggest hotel owner on the Strip, owns properties at the other three corners of the Tropicana Avenue-Las Vegas Boulevard.
MGM Resorts International CEO Bill Hornbuckle said during a quarterly earnings report this week that he has seen three different versions of where the planned A’s stadium stadium will site at the Tropicana hotel site.
“We’re waiting to see where that lands. I have to believe, in the next 30 to 60 days, we should find out more. I’ve been shown three versions of it now in terms of where it will actually sit on the site and how it will connect. Once it settles in, we’ll get serious about what we might want to do and how we might want to communicate with it, if you will, in terms of pedestrian traffic, etc.,” Hornbuckle said.
“But that’s how to think about where we might go first is really MGM and see how it all plays out,” he told analysts.
