Las Vegas Developer LVXP Picks AECOM To Design Proposed NBA Arena As Part Of Mixed-Used Project At Old Wet ‘N’ Wild Site On Strip
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
Real estate development company LVXP has picked a prominent engineering and architecture company, AECOM, to help it build a mixed-use development that includes a proposed arena at the 27-acre site on the Strip where Las Vegas businessman Jackie Robinson unsuccessfully tried to build an arena.
AECOM’s Bill Hanway and Dan Meis, who have worked on large-scale sports and entertainment venue design, will lead the arena part of the mixed-use project pegged for the old Wet ‘N’ Wild water park site.
AECOM has experience in arena design. LVXP says it wants to build an arena for an NBA team. Keep in mind that well-known arena builder Tim Leiweke and his Oak View Group want to build a multi-billion-dollar hotel-casino project that would include an NBA arena at Las Vegas Boulevard and Blue Diamond Road, about three miles south of Mandalay Bay hotel-casino. Also, T-Mobile Arena could potentially host an NBA team while any of these other arenas are built.
LVXP’s centerpiece of its proposed mixed-use development at 2601 S. Las Vegas Blvd. near the expanded Las Vegas Convention Center, Fontainebleau Las Vegas, Resorts World Las Vegas and the Sahara hotel-casino would be the planned arena.
The NBA has not announced plans for expansion, but talk has surfaced for years about the NBA adding franchises in Las Vegas and Seattle to expand from 30 to 32 teams. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has referred to the Las Vegas NBA Summer League in July as the NBA’s “31st franchise.”
LVXP is already partnering with Steelman Partners on the mixed-use proposal.
LVXP CEO James Frasure was quoted in a press release this morning: “We are ecstatic to collaborate with the illustrious firms Steelman Partners and AECOM. Paul Steelman’s visionary designs for the resort, coupled with AECOM’s unparalleled expertise in arena design, will create a magnificent and unrivaled destination on the Las Vegas Strip.”
LVXP has not said how much the project will cost, how it plans to finance the development or when a groundbreaking will take place.
