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.
