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Story by Alan Snel Photos by Hugh Byrne
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — A’s team president Marc Badain gave an update on the Athletics stadium project on the Strip — with the backing of Laborers Union Local 872 at Thursday’s Las Vegas Stadium Board meeting.
After a late June stadium groundbreaking, the concrete is flowing at the A’s stadium construction site on the Strip.
The A’s plan on 81 home games at the domd stadium at the site of the former Tropicana hotel at the southeast corner of Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard.
How many other ticketed events will there be at this planned A’s stadium?
Let’s look at the Raiders-managed Allegiant Stadium. The boosters of the $750 million public subsidy to help build the NFL Raiders stadium constantly crow about how the number of ticketed events exceeded expectations of about 40 events a year.
So, let’s go to the actual event numbers at Allegiant Stadium for 12 months during the first half of 2025 and second half of 2024. These numbers are part of the public information for Thursday’s Las Vegas Stadium Authority Board session at 3 PM at the Las Vegas Convention Center LVCVA meeting room. It’s the most recent 12-month period for ticketed-event activity as the domed venue, according to the data.
This chart shows there were 10 NFL games, six UNLV football contests, 12 concerts and 11 other ticketed events during the 12-month period. That’s a grand total of 39 ticketed events in a year.
It should be noted that the Raiders also include something called “private events,” which are often corporate events that can easily be accommodated at Las Vegas’ many hotel facilities or even other sports venues like F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix’s snazzy pit building at Koval Lane and Harmon Avenue. Is it proper to include corporate events in the stadium’s overall events number when these can easily be hosted by Las Vegas’ many facilities?
The Raiders’ announced attendance is tickets distributed and is not the number of people who actually attend games. For example, the one Raiders game in the first quarter of 2025 had attendance of 51,707. That’s more than 10,000 less than the fixed seats of 62,000 inside the stadium.
It’s important to note that Southern Nevada is still raising more than $1 billion in hotel room tax revenues to pay off the complete debt on the $750 million contributed by the public to the stadium construction budget of $1.4 billion. The $1.4 billion construction budget was the major spending item in the overall $2 billion stadium project that opened in 2020.
Also, the news of declining Las Vegas tourism will likely translate into a corresponding decrease in hotel room tax revenue that is earmarked to pay off the public debt on the Raiders stadium. Here’s a look at the latest room tax revenue numbers.
For example, the May 2025 drop in tourism over May 2024 meant also a drop in the stadium room tax money. The May 2025 hotel room revenues to help pay off Allegiant Stadium dropped 6.3 percent to $5.7 million. In May 2024, Clark County collected $6.1 million, according to the data for Thursday’s Las Vegas Stadium Authority Board meeting.
June tourism numbers dropped 11.3 percent in Las Vegas, so expect the hotel room tax revenues in June to decline as well when those numbers become available at the next Las Vegas stadium board meeting.
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