Las Vegas Stadium Board Could Approve Personal Seat License Deal For A’s Ballpark On Strip; Board Meeting Set For Feb. 19, 3 PM
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — The topic of personal seat licenses for fans who want to buy season tickets at the Athletics stadium on the Strip is on the agenda for the Las Vegas stadium board meeting Feb. 19.
LVSportsBiz.com first reported last year that the A’s were considering personal seat licenses — or PSLs — as a way to generate money to help pay for their $2 billion domed stadium that is scheduled to open for the 2028 Major League Baseball season. The stadium would have 30,000 fixed seats and room for another 3,000 standing fans.
In fact, the A’s even included the topic of PSLs in their fan survey last year.
The 28-page PSL deal is on the agenda for next Thursday’s stadium board meeting set for 3 PM at the Las Vegas Convention Center meeting room.
The Raiders used PSLs as a major contributor for paying for the construction costs for the NFL stadium that opened in Las Vegas in 2020. All fans who wanted to buy season ticket deals were required to pay a personal seat license fee. The Raiders generated a then-NFL record $549.2 million in PSL revenue to help pay for a stadium construction budget of $1.4 billion.
In the case of the A’s, they’re looking at requiring fans who want to buy premium seating season ticket deals to pay a PSL, which typically costs thousands of dollars. The actual price of a personal seat license depends on the seat location and cost of the season tickets. The A’s ticket survey pinpointed club seating and “enhanced general seating locations” for PSLs.
A link between the Raiders and A’s stadium is Athletics team president Marc Badain, who has acknowledged in the past that the A’s were looking at PSLs as an option. Badain was the former Raiders team president when the NFL team worked on their stadium in Las Vegas.
A’s owner John Fisher says he and his family have enough money to pay for the $2 billion stadium at the former Tropicana hotel-casino site at the southeast corner of Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard. The A’s are about eight months into a 31-month construction schedule. They are playing in a Triple-A ballpark in West Sacramento in 2026 and 2027 while the stadium on the Strip is being built.
Fisher wants investors to help pay for the stadium construction costs. The public is contributing $380 million to the A’s stadium under a 2023 state bill, though team executive Sandy Dean has said the team plans to use $350 million of the $380 million.
The A’s players are in Mesa, Arizona for spring training.
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