First renderings of the stadium, but does not show where the new Tropicana would be.
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/see-the-first-renderings-of-the-as-proposed-new-stadium-in-las-vegas-complete-with-view-of-the-strip/
Still no word on where the the A's will play next year. Could they play in Summerlin & move the Aviators to the old Chapman Field?
Cool looking stadium
Plan calls for only 2,500 parking spaces & maybe sharing parking with the new Trop
As a reference Citi Field with 43k seats has 9,000 spaces & many people arrive via public transit
Have they secured their end of the financing yet?
Are they still going to be called the "A's" ?
Originally posted by: Mark
Have they secured their end of the financing yet?
No. The primary reason is that until the site becomes definitive, no one knows how much it will cost.
Originally posted by: PJ Stroh
Are they still going to be called the "A's" ?
That's the rumor. Any team name change would have to be approved by MLB and a majority of the owners. Normally, that would add to the delay, but since they might not get this set up until 2064 anyway...
Originally posted by: tom
Plan calls for only 2,500 parking spaces & maybe sharing parking with the new Trop
As a reference Citi Field with 43k seats has 9,000 spaces & many people arrive via public transit
Makes sense. Most people will be able to take the Monorail to the MGM station and walk over, or stay at one of the nearby casinos and just walk over.
The San Diego Omni Hotel actually has a skybridge that connects it to Petco Park. Guests that are going to the game can access it right to the stadium. A buddy, whose son played for the Reds, was staying at the Omni. After the game they let us use the skybridge to go back to the hotel since he was a guest, and they didn't know that we weren't (or at least they didn't check).
Now the MGM and Excalibur are too far to do that, but it was a pretty cool experience.
Originally posted by: tom
First renderings of the stadium, but does not show where the new Tropicana would be.
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/see-the-first-renderings-of-the-as-proposed-new-stadium-in-las-vegas-complete-with-view-of-the-strip/
Still no word on where the the A's will play next year. Could they play in Summerlin & move the Aviators to the old Chapman Field?
Interesting. Makes me think of the Syndey Opera House with a retractable roof.
Originally posted by: Edso
Makes sense. Most people will be able to take the Monorail to the MGM station and walk over, or stay at one of the nearby casinos and just walk over.
The San Diego Omni Hotel actually has a skybridge that connects it to Petco Park. Guests that are going to the game can access it right to the stadium. A buddy, whose son played for the Reds, was staying at the Omni. After the game they let us use the skybridge to go back to the hotel since he was a guest, and they didn't know that we weren't (or at least they didn't check).
Now the MGM and Excalibur are too far to do that, but it was a pretty cool experience.
The really cool thing about Petco Park is that you can take the Jolly Trolley (the city's light rail network) directly to the stadium. You can park in the outlying transit lots for $0.
Vegas, unfortunately, didn't start thinking that it was an actual city where real people live and need all the facilities and amenities such a city should provide until about 1990. Up until then, there were nine (count 'em, nine) bus routes in toto, and most buses ran up and down the Strip. Hell, most of the sidewalks off the Strip weren't even paved. So Vegas's public transit system is still decades out of whack, and as a result, you won't be able to take public transit to the games, whereever they are, unless you're really lucky to snag one of the few buses available.
