By nearly every standard, the $1.8 billion Las Vegas stadium is about half finished.
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Nearly half of the $1.8 billion has been spent and construction on the Las Vegas stadium is about 44 percent completed with 11 of 26 canopy trusses in place.
A transportation study is underway aimed at making the area surrounding the Las Vegas stadium easier to navigate by incorporating enhanced pedestrian, bicycle and multimodal options.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air said the trademark request is not tied to the $1.8 billion Raiders’ Las Vegas stadium to be completed in 2020.
Construction crews on the Las Vegas Stadium have begun one of the most difficult — and most dangerous — aspects of the project.
The Las Vegas Stadium Community Benefits Plan Oversight Committee learned Thursday that for work through the end of February, 66 percent of the 1.3 million work hours performed on the project was completed by women and minorities.
At least one business near the Raiders stadium is already cashing in on the project.
The Raiders’ Las Vegas stadium has the green light to get its power from a provider other than NV Energy — and it won’t have to pay an impact fee to do business with an electricity competitor.
The third phase of PSL sales — the least expensive in the building with a range of between $500 and $3,900 per seat — are mostly in the highest levels of the stadium.
The first opportunity to host is in 2025 and the $1.8 billion stadium will have been open five years by then. Raiders President Marc Badain said the team will lead the charge to bring the game to Southern Nevada then.
The Raiders say “correction notices” issued to some fans for the personal seat licenses they bought are price adjustments and don’t constitute an overall reduction in PSL prices at the Las Vegas stadium.
With a goal of 38 percent of work hours required to be undertaken by women and minorities, as of the end of November, 69 percent of the 940,753 hours went to them.
Safety measures involving one of the two large openings within the $1.8 billion Las Vegas stadium project were unanimously approved Thursday by the Las Vegas Stadium Authority.
Before the Raiders take the field for games in their new stadium, workers will move a 9,500-ton, 240-foot-wide natural grass field into place on the stadium floor.
There’s no doubt in Don Webb’s mind where the most popular photo op will be in the new Las Vegas stadium.