Kim estimates that land to be worth about $180 million. and Gaming and Leisure Properties Inc.-which owns the land the Tropicana sits on- first offered the A’s the 9 acres of prime land on the 35-acre site for free ahead of the A’s legislative dealings. is eager to get that underway as soon as possible.īally’s Corp. The redevelopment of the Tropicana property is long overdue, with the resort opening in 1959, Kim said.
“We still need to talk to the A’s and make sure we’re coordinating on timing. “Now that this is going to happen, we really need to put some pen to paper and start planing out how the months go,” Kim told the Review-Journal. Now with the public financing deal set, that planning will get underway, according to Soo Kim, Bally’s Corp. Those at the Tropicana were in a wait-and-see mode as the legislative session played out. will now turn its attention to when the Tropicana hotel will be demolished. With Senate Bill 1 providing funding for an A’s ballpark in Las Vegas now signed into law by Gov.
The $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat stadium is planned to be located on 9 acre of land of the 35-acre Tropicana site. An artist rendering of what the Oakland Athletics Las Vegas ballpark could look like.
