{"id":18448,"date":"2016-06-28T15:16:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T23:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=18448"},"modified":"2016-07-01T13:51:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T21:51:50","slug":"riviera-site-to-become-a-stadium-cordish-mgm-face-off-in-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/riviera-site-to-become-a-stadium-cordish-mgm-face-off-in-maryland\/","title":{"rendered":"Riviera site to become a stadium?; Cordish, MGM face off in Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s anything but certain that the [your city here] Raiders<\/strong> are coming to Las Vegas<\/strong>, but our civic leaders are moving ahead as though it were a done deal<\/a>. The preferred site for \"sheldonadelson\"a Las Vegas Sands<\/strong>-backed stadium, on Tropicana Avenue<\/strong>, is looking iffier and iffier<\/a>, especially since it sits uncomfortably close to a busy glide path for McCarran International Airport<\/strong> and the FAA<\/strong> could easily nip that in the bud. Interestingly, two former casino sites have come into play as fallback positions. While the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority<\/strong> (from whom Sands hopes to wrest the plurality\u00a0of the stadium money) owns the Riviera<\/strong> and is busy tearing it down, LVCVA President Rossi Ralenkotter<\/strong> is suddenly very tractable to the idea of putting a football stadium on the site. Obviously, the value of being right on the Strip cannot be understated.<\/p>\n

Also in play are the Rock in Rio<\/strong> festival grounds. Since the first Vegas outing of the festival may have been its last — and because MGM Resorts International<\/strong> wouldn’t be heavily out of pocket to scrap them and the nearby RV park, it has to be viewed as a prime candidate. MGM has a great deal of underutilized real estate up there, including Circus Circus<\/strong>, and the site would be right off I-15<\/strong>. (The fourth site under consideration, Cashman Field<\/strong>, appears to be a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency choice.) As inconceivable as the NFL on the Las Vegas Strip<\/strong> appeared even a year ago, it’s a notion that’s definitely snowballing.<\/p>\n