Posted on: October 17, 2024, 12:27h.
Last updated on: October 17, 2024, 02:25h.
We still don’t have a detailed financial plan from A’s owner John Fisher for building his team’s new stadium on the Las Vegas Strip, but we do have some pretty new drawings of how the ballpark and an adjoining Bally’s Crop. casino resort might look if they ever get built.
The renderings, submitted to Clark County by an Oakland-based LLC called Athletics StadCo., show the $1.5 billion, 33K-capacity, 373K-square-foot stadium standing 290 feet tall near the center of the former Tropicana site, occupying nine of its 35 acres.
Wrapping around the ballpark, according to the plans, will be a 90K square-foot Bally’s casino resort built on 14.7 acres of the property. It will supposedly feature 1,500 slot machines, 75 table games, a poker room, and a 12K-square-foot sportsbook in addition to food, retail, beverage, a day club and nightclub, and 110K square feet of meeting space.
Three hotel towers, loaded with more than 3,000 rooms, will allegedly sprout 495 feet into the air (more than 200 feet higher than the adjacent MGM Grand) from the site’s northeast and southwest corners.
A Bally’s spokesperson told Casino.org that the renderings are “initial massing diagrams intended to ensure that both our resort program and the A’s stadium program can be successfully accommodated on the site.”
“We anticipate that the designs will evolve as we advance the project,” the spokesperson added.
The plans also call for 2,500 spaces of onsite parking split amongst two garages — one at the northwest corner and the other at the southeast corner — and a street-level lot on the southwest corner.
The authors of the plans concede that a sold-out game (or, more likely) concert would require more than double that number of parking spaces (5,370), and that 100 of the 2,500 will already be claimed by the A’s home office, which will occupy 60K square feet of the complex’s office space.
That’s assuming the plans are correct in estimating that more than 9,000 attendees will walk to the stadium from surrounding resorts or their parking garages.
The plans also point out that other travel options to and from the stadium include the Vegas Loop (“Tesla Tunnels”), taxi and rideshare, buses, and limos. Because people don’t already know that.
Each area of the proposed complex will be built in phases, according to the plans, with the ballpark and parking garage going up first, and the integrated resort set for construction in three phases.
That’s if they are built at all.
The A’s say construction on their stadium will start in the second quarter of 2025 so that it can be ready for the start of the 2028 MLB season. No timeline was given for constructing the casino resort.
