It will take a giant shoehorn to build a MLB ballpark on nine acres of the 34-acre Bally’s site. Meanwhile, the site switch from the old Wild Wild West casino site at Tropicana the road and Dean Martin Drive to Tropicana the hotel means the A’s will be asking for only $395 million in public resources instead of the $500 million that was requested for the previous site to build the $1.5 million retractable-roofed venue. Who knows what the A’s stadium search scorecard says next week. The Nevada Independent first reported the news today. That’s the Athletics’ ballpark plan for today, anyway.
The A’s want to partner with Tropicana’s owner, Bally’s Corporation, to demolish the old hotel not too far from T-Mobile Arena and build their ballpark right on the Strip where infrastructure and transportation resources are as scarce as water in the desert. The Oakland Athletics’ romance of Las Vegas for a ballyard has turned into a speed-dating ballpark site adventure, with the Major League Baseball Team ditching a 49-acre site west of the Strip for a ballpark in favor of the Tropicana hotel site right on the Strip at Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue.
