Developer LVXP Publicizes NBA Arena Rendering For Mixed-Use Proposal On North End Of Strip


By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer 

LAS VEGAS, Nevada – The CEO of Steelman Partners in Las Vegas has released renderings and a video showing an NBA arena connected to a hotel resort on the north end of the Strip on the old Wet ‘N’ Wild site.

Paul Curtis Steelman released the LVXP project details in a LinkedIn post Thursday.

LVSportsBiz.com has reported on this arena project earlier this year. The site for the proposed mixed-use arena development is 27 acres.

LVXP wants to build the NBA arena on the site where Las Vegas businessman and former UNLV basketball player Jackie Robinson wanted to build an arena and non-gambling hotel. Clark County gave Robinson nine years to come up with the funding for the 22,000-seat arena project. But the All Net arena project was an air ball and Robinson was not able to build the venue.

Here is an LVSportsBiz.com look at the site:

The LVXP arena proposal is is the second NBA arena project proposed in Las Vegas. Arena builder Tim Leiweke, of Oak View Group, wants to build an NBA arena at the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Blue Diamond Road, about three miles south of Mandalay Bay.

Leiweke has said he will not ask for any public money for that arena projject. He has yet to publicize any renderings of his proposed arena, which would be part of a hotel-casino project.


 

 

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.