LAS VEGAS — The construction of the new Major League Baseball stadium is set to reshape the city as a sports destination.
In the early hours of Oct. 9, 2024, the iconic Tropicana hotel was demolished to make way for the new $1.5 billion, 33,000-seat baseball stadium for the Oakland Athletics, who are relocating. The 35-acre campus will include two luxury hotel towers and an immersive fan experience at UnCommons, giving fans a glimpse of what to expect. The ballpark is expected to open in 2028.
The demolition of the iconic resort reflects the end of an era as developers move towards modern, experience-based, and hybrid entertainment, particularly sports. The stadium builds on the arrival of the city’s first major professional sports team, the Vegas Golden Knights, in 2016, as Las Vegas continues to establish itself as a major sports hub.
Already, the stadium has supported the local economy by creating hundreds of jobs. A’s President Marc Badain shared more on the job creation, “I was just out at the site itself. Normally, in projects like this, you don’t see a lot of change from day to day. But you do now, for us. I go out, and it seems like we’re pouring one section of floor every day. We’re building these buttresses and we have 300 people out on the site.”
“Mostly locals who are building all this for us. It’s going to grow to close to 1,800 people.”
