The Oakland A’s plan to build their new park at the Tropicana hotel location in Las Vegas as announced on Tue May 9, 2023 (photo from KSNV TV)

Athletics shift to Tropicana

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By Amaury Pi-González

The Oakland Athletics have shifted their Las Vegas stadium plans and have entered into an agreement with Bally’s Corp. to build a $1.5 billion, 35,000-seat ballpark where the Tropicana now sits. The news broke on Tuesday March 9. The Tropicana site was one of many that the Athletics executives have been scouting for years.

This location for the $1.5 billion stadium is on a portion of the Tropicana hotel site of 34 acres. near the southern end of the Las Vegas Strip, as reported by various media outlets, including Howart Stutz of The Nevada Independent, as well as Sports Illustrated and FOX 5 San Diego.

The plan, as it stands now, is to demolish the Tropicana in order to build the 35,000 seat stadium. This move is expected to reduce the funding for the project from the $500 million before, to $395 million for the project today. The proposed stadium with a retractable roof will take up nine acres of the 34 total for that lot of land.

This was a drastic shift from the previous 49 acres of land, where they were planning to build the new stadium at Dean Martin Drive. This shift is mainly because it reduces the amount of money needed by some $100 million-plus/ The two things Las Vegas has in abundance are, land and Casino money, which still is expected to replace or alleviate the use public money for this whole operation. And that’s the way the ball is bouncing.

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