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On a recent weekday, it was a quiet late morning at Einsteins Bros Bagels on Tropicana Avenue across from McCarran International Airport.
During Thursday’s meeting of the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee at UNLV, tourism leaders testified that a new stadium near the Strip could help Las Vegas attract at least 20 new annual special events and the tourists who’d attend them.
The idea of building a stadium with a dome at UNLV is back in play only a year after a panel controlled by the gaming industry recommended an open-air stadium with a shading system.
Southern Nevada’s appetite for hosting more special events to draw large numbers of tourists could result in a renewed push to build a stadium to stage events too large for facilities Las Vegas already has.
MGM Resorts International officials were not ready Thursday to offer a lot of details on parking and traffic plans for their new $375 million arena on the Strip.
George Strait, country music’s bedrock superstar, will be an anchor act for Las Vegas’ new arena, playing exclusive multiple engagements in the new venue in April.
UNLV officials are looking at commercial developments including a 30,000-square-foot entertainment building, restaurants and retail stores as possible money-makers to help buy a 42-acre stadium site at Tropicana Avenue and Koval Lane.
The AEG-MGM arena construction is underway. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the $375 million arena’s floor pouring.
UNLV’s next step for a new stadium is Thursday when university officials will brief a Nevada Board of Regents committee on various financial options to buy 42 acres at Tropicana Avenue and Koval Lane for $50 million.
Construction workers on Wednesday installed the last beam of the $375 million arena being built behind the New York-New York garage on the Strip, marking a milestone two days ahead of schedule.
The National Hockey League Board of Governors could vote on a Las Vegas franchise bid in September for a 2017-18 season start, the MGM International executive overseeing arena operations and the company’s new Strip arena said Friday.
The nationally known political and sports stat guru trashes Sin City’s hockey hopes on his website, but locals say he doesn’t understand Las Vegas.
Naming rights for the AEG/MGM Resorts International 20,000-seat arena could be worth $2 million to $10 million per year — if Las Vegas lands a pro sports team.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas officials are working with a sports facility consultant to draw naming rights deals in hope of generating more money from its three-building campus sports complex.
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