NYT SPORT: With Las Vegas Land Deal, Athletics May Finally Leave Oakland
By David Waldstein and Benjamin Hoffman
Section: Sports
Source: New York Times
The agreement on the 49-acre site in Nevada, which the team’s president, Dave Kaval, confirmed to The Las Vegas Review-Journal on Wednesday night, will seemingly end years of tense negotiations for a new stadium in the Bay Area, an investment the team said it needed to remain financially viable and competitive with its peers in Major League Baseball.
“It’s obviously a very big milestone for us,” Kaval said of the potential move to Las Vegas, which would be the first relocation of a major league franchise in two decades. “We spent almost two years working in Las Vegas to try to determine a location that works for a long-term home. To identify a site and have a purchase agreement is a big step.”
In the past decade, the A’s have explored moves to Fremont, Calif., and San Jose before settling on a detailed plan for a waterfront stadium in Oakland — any option, it seemed, that might lure fans to watch a team that last season was the only club in baseball to average fewer than 10,000 fans a game. Published Date: April 20, 2023 at 03:00AM
By David Waldstein and Benjamin Hoffman
Section: Sports
Source: New York Times
After years of tense negotiations to remain in the Bay Area, the A’s said they had reached a deal to acquire a stadium site near the Las Vegas Strip.
The Oakland Athletics have reached an agreement to acquire land near the Las Vegas Strip and said Wednesday that they hoped to be playing games in a new, billion-dollar retractable roof stadium on the site by 2027.The agreement on the 49-acre site in Nevada, which the team’s president, Dave Kaval, confirmed to The Las Vegas Review-Journal on Wednesday night, will seemingly end years of tense negotiations for a new stadium in the Bay Area, an investment the team said it needed to remain financially viable and competitive with its peers in Major League Baseball.
“It’s obviously a very big milestone for us,” Kaval said of the potential move to Las Vegas, which would be the first relocation of a major league franchise in two decades. “We spent almost two years working in Las Vegas to try to determine a location that works for a long-term home. To identify a site and have a purchase agreement is a big step.”
In the past decade, the A’s have explored moves to Fremont, Calif., and San Jose before settling on a detailed plan for a waterfront stadium in Oakland — any option, it seemed, that might lure fans to watch a team that last season was the only club in baseball to average fewer than 10,000 fans a game. Published Date: April 20, 2023 at 03:00AM
Read More at: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/sports/baseball/oakland-athletics-stadium-las-vegas.html
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