Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo on Wednesday announced a tentative agreement between his office, leaders of the state legislature and the Oakland Athletics on funding for a baseball stadium, following weeks of negotiations over the amount of public money the state would build for an enclosure. which will cost 1,500 million. Dollar.
The tentative agreement envisages that a preliminary project with funding will be presented to the legislature in less than two weeks before the end of the current term of the session, according to a joint release. The bill would need the approval of both the state senate and the assembly.
A special session of the legislature can also be called if lawmakers do not agree before the end of the current session on June 5. Financing is also not a sure thing.
The bill was announced days after the A’s purchased a parcel of land at the southern end of the Las Vegas Strip, home to the Tropicana Hotel and Casino, a turn in a previous deal that would be worth more than $500 million, and He was warned by MPs that was too expensive. The joint statement does not mention a specific figure on the amount of public money that A would be requesting.
According to Nevada State Treasurer Zach Conine, the project comprises the largest private investment for a stadium in Major League Baseball.
The A’s had been searching for years for another venue to replace the Oakland Coliseum, where the team had moved from Kansas City at the start of the 1968 season. He tried building stadiums in Fremont and San Jose, then tried coastal Oakland.
Las Vegas would be the fourth berth for the franchise that began as the Philadelphia Athletics from 1901–54. It would be the smallest television market in the Major Leagues and the smallest segment to have three professional sports franchises. The team and the city are projected to attract approximately 40 million tourists who visit Las Vegas annually.
