The vote stood to make or break the Oakland A’s vision of a $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat ballpark on the Las Vegas strip.
Nevada lawmakers have spent the past week asking questions, making deals and flipping votes as theyMostly, however, they have taken extended breaks from actual formal deliberations.
The majority-Democratic senators compromised on the bill after the A’s agreed to include numerous community benefits, including measures for homelessness prevention and paid family leave that previously had been vetoed by Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo. Oakland Athletics fan Pepito Mendez, 3, of Pittsburg, plays cornhole on a John Fisher board during the “Reverse Boycott” event at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, June 13, 2023. Stu Clary, of Vacaville, a longtime Oakland A’s fan, came up with the idea in hopes of packing the Coliseum with fans to support the team despite their possible move to Las Vegas.
So far, though, the votes have not fallen along party lines, with some Democrats accepting compromise and others remaining ideologically opposed to funding sports stadiums with public money, and Republicans similarly diverging over whether taxpayer money should be risked on the A’s future. The team remains on lease at the Coliseum through 2024, and the team’s previous plan to complete a Vegas stadium by 2027 now appears to be on a longer trajectory — a team-hired financial analyst said multiple times during the Senate proceedings that construction would be finished “in five years.”
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