A Red Rock Resorts spokesman offered no comment on the development.
weren’t available for comment on the site switch. Representatives from the A’s and Bally’s Corp. The Major League Baseball franchise was seeking $500 million in tax financing for a stadium on the former Wild Wild West site, at Tropicana Avenue and Dean Martin Drive, land the team last month had agreed to buy from Station Casinos parent company Red Rock Resorts. In moving the ballpark site east, where it would be surrounded by megaresorts, the A’s are reducing the amount of public funding they want from the Nevada Legislature to $395 million. The plan would bring yet more dramatic transformation to the Strip: The Tropicana, a relic of the 1950s, would be demolished to make way for a partially retractable roof stadium on nine of the site’s 35 acres, a person with knowledge of the arrangement told the Review-Journal Tuesday. to build a $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat ballpark where the Tropicana Las Vegas now sits. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal) Oakland Athletics have shifted their Las Vegas stadium plans, entering an agreement with Bally’s Corp.
Aerial view of the south Las Vegas Strip at sunset on Wednesday, January 12, 2022.
