The owners of the Tropicana want to see a $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat ballpark built on their site.
Mick Akers
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Mick joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal as transportation reporter in November 2018. He previously worked at the Las Vegas Sun covering a variety of beats including transportation, business, gaming, and city and county government. Prior to that, he worked at the Pahrump Valley Times, where he was named the Nevada Press Association’s Outstanding Journalist in the intermediate category for his coverage of the Lamar Odom brothel overdose situation, rural healthcare and more. Mick was born in Texas but grew up in Las Vegas, attending UNLV’s Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies where he was a member of the Kappa Tau Alpha National Journalism Society.
The Athletics decision to switch their preferred ballpark site to the Tropicana property will bring more than a team to the south Strip. It will also bring traffic.
The Oakland Athletics and the Culinary Union 226 have struck a deal on potential Las Vegas stadium workers having the right to union contracts.
Golden Knights owner Bill Foley is ready to welcome the Oakland Athletics as a new neighbor on the Strip.
The area named after the driver will be situated within the Oracle Red Bull grandstands for November’s Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Plans for the A’s $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat stadium at the Tropicana resort site call for the baseball diamond to face northwest.
Plans call for the Tropicana to be demolished, with the A’s set to build a partially retractable roof ballpark on nine of the 35 acres of the south Strip site.
Construction on temporary structures for the Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix is slated to begin next month.
LVCVA President and CEO Steve Hill said the walkability of the race’s footprint is something that isn’t really possible elsewhere.
NDOT has begun the process of an environmental study, aimed at determining the potential impacts that eliminating HOV lanes would have on Southern Nevada.
The underground concept came after UNLV raised concerns with the previous elevated expressway option being an eyesore and would also block branding of the school and the Thomas & Mack Center.
The Boring Company’s planned expansion for the underground transportation system was given the green light by the Clark County Commission.
Las Vegas is seeking to keep the NFR in Las Vegas, with some seeing the Oakland Athletics’ planned Southern Nevada ballpark as a potential landing spot.
Phil Ruffin and the A’s were working on a deal for the 37-acre Las Vegas Festival Grounds site located on the southwest corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Sahara Avenue.
If the Oakland Athletics receive the hundreds of millions of dollars in public funding to construct an MLB ballpark in Southern Nevada, the Las Vegas Stadium Authority would likely oversee it.