redstate.com By Jerry Wilson
Although the final agreements are still to come, it is now all but certain that the MLB’s Oakland A’s will shortly join the NFL’s Raiders in relocating to Las Vegas. The team has entered into an agreement to purchase land near the Strip for a new ballpark, which, if all goes to plan, will open in 2027. As reported in the San Francisco Chronicle:
Dave Kaval, the president of the A’s, said the team entered into a purchasing agreement last week on a 49-acre site near Tropicana Boulevard and Interstate 15 where the team could build a 35,000-seat stadium.
“For a long time we were on parallel paths, and right now, at this moment, and with this transaction that we just entered into, we are really focusing our efforts on Las Vegas and on bringing the 20-year saga of the A’s stadium-venue efforts to kind of a final positive conclusion,” Kaval told The Chronicle after returning from Las Vegas on Wednesday night.
This announcement came at the same time the city of Oakland halted all negotiations with the team.
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