The Oakland Athletics have made an offer for a plot of land in the Las Vegas Valley with the potential to build a $ 1 billion ballpark, team president Dave Kaval said Friday.
Kaval did not disclose where the land is, but noted that the attempt to secure a location suggests things are getting more serious at the front of the stadium in southern Nevada.
“We are moving from a research / data collection phase to an action around a final location,” Kaval told the review journal on Friday afternoon. “This is really important because site selection is a really critical way to move the process forward until we could have a holistically blessed project.”
Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred gave the A’s the green light in May to begin exploring Las Vegas as a potential moving market. Team officials have since made several trips to the area to tour potential sites and meet with key stakeholders and elected officials.
Kaval said A’s brass people would be back in the Las Vegas Valley in December, and come back every two to three weeks after that.
With things moving faster than team officials expected, Kaval said the final location could be publicly announced in early 2022.
The A’s will need to provide a relocation plan to MLB officials once the final location is selected, and they will work with the area’s managers and officials on a possible funding plan.
“How it works, how it is funded, all the public-private partnerships, all the aspects and why we think it works in the market,” said Kaval. “We are building on that with all of these steps.”
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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