Top Ten Things You Should Know About The A’s Stadium In Las Vegas
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Ten things you should know about the A’s stadium under construction on the Strip at the former Tropicana hotel-casino site. The A’s stadium on the Strip was designed by HNTB in collaboration with BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group,
- The A’s stadium capacity will be 33,000 fans — 30,000 fixed seats and 3,000 standing. This stadium will likely have the highest percentage of premium seats in the majors as the venue will offer tiered social lounges and standing terraces throughout the ballpark.
2. The 2023 Nevada state bill that includes the public assistance to help the A’s build the stadium designates $380 million in various subsidy forms. But A’s executive Sandy Dean say they will use only $350 million of the public aid, meaning owner John Fisher is responsible for $1.4 billion of the $1.75 billion domed stadium.
3. The A’s stadium roof will be fixed. A retractable roof would have added tens of millions of dollars to the construction budget. The fixed roof features five overlapping shell-like structures, thus the “spherical armadillo” reference that was introduced to the world in March 2024.
4. The bullpens will be stacked and fans will have ample opportunity to heckle the relief pitchers.
5. This stadium will introduce the primary entrance through the outfield, offering an unobstructed view of the field and seating bowl. That’s in contrast to most ballparks that orient fans to the field from behind home plate or along the baselines.
6. You will see the New York New York and MGM Grand hotel-casinos across the Tropicana Avenue-Las Vegas Boulevard intersection via a cable-net glass window, which will make the curtain glass wall the world’s largest of its type. The stadium will also include an 18,000-square-foot jumbotron, which would make it the largest screen in the majors.
7. The A’s believe they can build their stadium on a nine-acre footprint at the site’s 35 acres. The Minnesota Twins’ Target Field has a footprint of just under nine acres.
8. Marc Badain might be the only person to serve as team president of two major league teams building individual stadiums in the same market. At the Raiders, Badain helmed owner Marc Davis’ stadium project and now Badain will oversee the A’s stadium construction. An important part of Badain’s job is to generate the lucrative founding partner sponsorship deals that he realized at the Raiders stadium.
9. Open spaces likes concourses and atriums will serve as also exhibition spaces to showcase art like fans have seen at the Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium. Expect the A’s stadium to compete with the Raiders stadium and the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix pit building for corporate events and social gatherings.
10. A’s owner John Fisher is looking for partners to help finance his $1.4 billion share of paying for the stadium. He has bought a house in Summerlin and says he and his family, which owns the Gap retail empire, are prepared to pay for the stadium on the Strip even without partners.
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