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Story by Alan Snel Photos by Hugh Byrne
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — A’s team president Marc Badain said ground has “essentially” been broken at the team’s stadium construction site on the Strip with test pilings starting May 12 and a trailer compound mostly installed.
Cranes are set to be mobilized in late June or early July at the former Tropicana hotel-casino site at the southeast corner of Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard, he said. The $1.75 billion, 33,000-fan-capacity stadium is slated to open for the 2028 MLB season with the A’s playing their home games in a Triple-A minor league ballpark in West Sacramento in 2025, 2026 and 2027.
A ceremonial ground breaking date is still being worked on, Badain told the Las Vegas Stadium Authority Board at a 47-minute meeting at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
The A’s president, who was the Raiders team president when the NFL team opened Allegiant Stadium in 2020, offers a sense of comfort because he’s been through the stadium-building drill in Las Vegas, said Steve Hill, the LVCVA head who chairs the Las Vegas Stadium Authority Board.
Hill said the stadium project is on schedule:
“We know they know what they’re doing,” Hill said of the Mortensen-McCarthy stadium construction team. That duo also built Raiders stadium.
In other business, the stadium board:
^ hired former Clark County Manager Don Burnette as A’s baseball stadium community benefits director at $40,000 a year. A woman during public comments said she disagreed with being told she was not eligible to be considered.
^ paid UNLV $1,234,888.61 as compensation for the loss of net income as a result of the closing of Sam Boyd Stadium.
^ saw that at least $4.3 million is being raised each month in hotel room tax money to help pay off Southern Nevada’s debt on the $750 million that the public contributed toward the construction of Raiders-run Allegiant Stadium.
^ heard that the Raiders are spending a little more than $1 million ($1,057,425.00) to expand bathrooms at Allegiant Stadium.