Follow usOakland Athletics will have up to $380 million for a potential 30,000 seat new stadium in Las Vegas after a bill introduced late Friday in the Nevada Legislature. The whole project will cost them $1.5 billion.
The bulk of the public funding would come from $180 million in transferable tax credits from the state and $120 million in county bonds, which can vary based on Interest rate returns. Clark County also would contribute $25 million in credit toward infrastructure costs.
Here are the first renderings of the Oakland Atheltics’ Las Vegas ballpark. The A’s plan to build a $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat retractable roof stadium on 9 acres of land on the Tropicana’s Las Vegas Strip site. #vegas #oakland #athletics pic.twitter.com/wXJUDLZTUG
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The A’s have been looking for a home to replace their Oakland Coliseum, where the team has played since arriving from Kansas City for the 1968 season. The team had sought to build a stadium in Fremont, San Jose and finally the Oakland waterfront, all ideas that never materialized.
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