“All of the projections, over the life of the team being there versus if it would not be there, it’s going to make a huge difference,” Kim said. Kim said with Las Vegas already being one of the premier tourist destinations in the world, that truly makes those numbers floated during the A’s pitch to lawmakers attainable. Some of those in opposition to the project often questioned the projected economic and tourism impacts the proposed stadium would have. “We’ve actually looked at smaller and larger projects, but it’s too early to say,” Kim said. plans to do with the other 26 or so acres is still being determined, with Kim previously floating a potential resort-casino project for the site.

I think this is going to be a great success.” I think that the risk to all the talk of ‘what if the revenues fall short,’ I just think that is overblown. “Look we put up as much money as the county or the state and we did that because the economic benefits, to us, were clear. “I think people will look back at this and call this a no-brainer,” Kim said. The SB1 bill includes up to $380 million in additional public money -$180 million from the state and $145 million from Clark County - toward the planned $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat ballpark. Kim estimates that land to be worth about $180 million.

and Gaming and Leisure Properties Inc.-which owns the land the Tropicana sits on- first offered the A’s the 9 acres of prime land on the 35-acre site for free ahead of the A’s legislative dealings. is eager to get that underway as soon as possible.īally’s Corp. The redevelopment of the Tropicana property is long overdue, with the resort opening in 1959, Kim said. “We still need to talk to the A’s and make sure we’re coordinating on timing. “Now that this is going to happen, we really need to put some pen to paper and start planing out how the months go,” Kim told the Review-Journal. Now with the public financing deal set, that planning will get underway, according to Soo Kim, Bally’s Corp. Those at the Tropicana were in a wait-and-see mode as the legislative session played out. will now turn its attention to when the Tropicana hotel will be demolished.

With Senate Bill 1 providing funding for an A’s ballpark in Las Vegas now signed into law by Gov. The $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat stadium is planned to be located on 9 acre of land of the 35-acre Tropicana site. An artist rendering of what the Oakland Athletics Las Vegas ballpark could look like.

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