Crews Moving Debris, Rubble From A’s Stadium Site On Strip, But Still Work To Be Done Before Site Is Ready For Groundbreaking
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — The future site of the A’s stadium on the Strip is getting cleared of debris and rubble, but an LVSportsBiz.com look at the site Monday afternoon showed a groundbreaking will not be happening any time soon.
That’s because there are still large mounds debris that need to be removed at the 35-acre site at the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue. Take a look:
The A’s said they want to break ground in the second quarter of 2025, which is either April, May or June. By the looks of the site, it appears as if June would be most accurate.
The Raiders stadium took 31 months to build when it opened in 2020 after a Nov. 2017 groundbreaking. If the A’s start building their $1.75 billion domed stadium in June and also take two and a half months to construct the venue, then the 33,000-fan ballpark should be ready for the 2028 Major League Baseball season.
A’s owner John Fisher was in Las Vegas only ten days ago to announce an $8.25 million, three-year sponsorship deal with the3 LVCVA public tourism agency. The deal includes the A’s jersey with a “Las Vegas” patch on its sleeve for the 2025, 2026 and 2027 seasons when the A’s play in a Triple-A minor league stadium in West Sacramento while the stadium is built on the Strip.
The A’s stadium builders are Mortenson and McCarthy, the construction team that built Allegiant Stadium for the Raiders. Mortenson and McCarthy representatives have visited the A’s stadium site on the Strip.
The A’s are building their baseball stadium on a nine-acre footprint on the 35 acres. They’re getting the land for free from the site’s owner, Gaming & Leisure Properties, Inc. (GLPI), which owns that site.
A third party, Bally’s Corp., which owned the former Tropicana hotel-casino on the site before it was imploded in October, wants to build a hotel-casino resort next to the A’s stadium with the two structures connected via a pedestrian bridge.
Here’s the A’s stadium budget:
Speaking of bigtime sports on the Strip and in the Strip corridor, the F1 Las Vegas race folks are gearing up to open their F1-inspired karting operation at its Las Vegas base at Koval Lane and Harmon Avenue east of the Strip. The karting operation starts at the end of March.
Across the street from the F1 grand prix paddock building on the west side of Koval Lane, LVSportsBiz.com was surprised to see that there are no sidewalks, just dirt.
That’s not F1’s responsibility, but it does reaffirm Clark County’s poor showing as a walkable place.
Take a look at the videos we took today.
The Las Vegas Grand Prix has crowed about all the money its race event brings to Clark County, but apparently the county does not have enough money to build sidewalks on a major road like Koval Lane in the Strip corridor. There’s not much to say to Clark County except this is embarrassing and public works should be ashamed. Good grief.
Speaking of the Strip corridor and roads, the road construction on Frank Sinatra Drive on the west side of the Strip looks like it means only a single lane in each direction — that’s one lane leading to three Vegas Golden Knights games at T-Mobile Arena on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Plan your trips to the VGK games accordingly.
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