July 5, 2023
A rendering of the A's proposed $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat, retractable roof ballpark on the Strip and Tropicana Avenue.
The Oakland Athletics released four renderings of the Major League Baseball club’s planned $1.5 billion stadium Tuesday, and it appears the team is replacing the 67-year-old Rat Pack-era Tropicana Las Vegas with something akin to Australia’s Sydney Opera House. The architect whose firm designed the 33,000-seat ballpark described its non-retractable roof as a “spherical armadillo.” In a statement, the designers said the stadium “provides an outdoor feel with views of the Strip.”
Questions raised over the feasibility of fitting a 30,000-seat, retractable-roof Major League Baseball stadium on roughly one-quarter of the Tropicana’s 35-acre south Strip location have not rankled the Oakland A’s nor Bally’s Corp., which operates the Rat Pack-era resort.
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