You can see through the old Tropicana hotel now. Photo credit: Hugh Byrne/LVSportsBiz.com
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Tropicana Hotel Building Scheduled To Be Reduced To Rubble Early Morning October 9 To Make Way For A’s Stadium On Strip

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Planned Athletics ballpark site — former Tropicana hotel site on the Strip. Photo credit: LVSportsBiz.com

 

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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer

One small step for a baseball stadium. One giant boom to implode another historic Las Vegas hotel-casino.

Bally’s Corporation says it’s reducing its former Tropicana buildings to rubble at 2:30AM Oct. 9 with an implosion to make way for an Athletics stadium that is scheduled to open for the 2028 Major League Baseball season.

Bally’s closed the 1957 circa hotel April 2 when LVSportsBiz.com was there to document the guests leaving the casino for one last time after nearly 67 years.

Bally’s is working with the property owner, Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc., and the A’s on a site plan for land at the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue. The A’s believe they can build a 33,000-seat domed stadium on nine acres of the 35-acre site.

It’s a small footprint for a Major League Baseball stadium. But the A’s think they can pull it off. The team is playing its final season at the Coliseum in 2024 before moving temporarily to Sacramento to play in a Triple-A ballpark in 2025, 2026 and 2027.

 

A’s owner John Fisher says he has enough money to build the Las Vegas stadium, which will use as much as $380 million in government assistance to be built by the baseball team. The A’s are using the same building team of Mortenson and McCarthy that built the Raiders stadium in 2020 to construct their sports venue.

A’s owner John Fisher

 

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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