Vegas $2B arena-and-stadium plan doesn’t come with parking
So it turns out that not only is developer Chris Milam proposing to build a $1.95 billion sports complex in Las Vegas, but that doesn’t include land for parking: Nearly a dozen artist renderings...
View ArticleNevada legislature readies TIF financing bill for Vegas arena
Las Vegas still has more arena and stadium plans than you can shake a stick at, but pretty much all of them have one thing in common: They’d use tax increment financing, the much-derided financing...
View ArticleNevada stadium hearing: Three projects enter, only one will leave
The Nevada legislature heard from three developers who want to build stadiums in Las Vegas — Majestic, Cordish, and Chris Milam — as part of a hearing yesterday on the bill to provide TIF kickbacks to...
View ArticleLegislative clock running down on Vegas stadium and arena deals
It’s getting late early out there in Nevada, as the state assembly adjourns tomorrow, leaving little time to hash out the details of the complicated arena tax-increment financing bill that three...
View ArticleVegas sports subsidy bill killed dead
The funding bill for a Las Vegas arena, or a Las Vegas stadium, or a Las Vegas arena/stadium/floor wax was declared officially dead last night by the bill’s sponsors: Asked if any elements of the...
View ArticleMajestic on $2B Vegas stadium: Read their lips, no new taxes
Majestic’s proposed 40,000-seat domed stadium and basketball arena may have died in the Nevada legislature, but as we all know, stadium plans never stay dead for long. And so we have this from today’s...
View ArticleLas Vegas still has more stadium and arena plans than it knows what to do with
Yesterday’s Las Vegas Sun has a rundown of the various stadium and arena proposals simmering in that city, and their current status. The summary: The Cordish Companies, which signed a deal with the Las...
View ArticleReport: Domed UNLV stadium best thing since sliced manna from heaven
I almost decided not to post about Friday’s approval of an $800 million, 60,000-seat domed stadium plan by University of Nevada-Las Vegas, given that it’s for college football and the proposed other...
View ArticleHenderson three-stadiums-or-maybe-none deal heads to court, even more...
I’ve been sadly neglecting Chris Milam’s insane scheme to build $2 billion worth of stadiums and arenas near Las Vegas — and in case you think that’s not enough to warrant the moniker “insane,” recall...
View ArticleMGM Resorts opposes $900m UNLV stadium plan, calls it “too expensive”
Turns out there may be some opposition to creating a sales-tax kickback district for UNLV’s $800-million-wait-now-it’s-actually-$900-million football stadium-and-other-stuff plan after all: MGM Resorts...
View ArticleVegas finally kills a stadium plan, only two or three or twelve left to go
You can officially stick a fork in Chris Milam’s insane plan to build multiple stadiums and arenas near Las Vegas, which turned into an insane plan just to get the land and built who knows what, as the...
View ArticleMajestic proposes its own $770m UNLV stadium plan, because Vegas
Sad that we no longer have the crazy Seattle-Sacramento bidding war over the Kings to provide us with daily entertainment? Fear not, for there’s still the utter insanity that is Las Vegas and its...
View ArticleUNLV partners with former opponents in attempt to revive stadium plan
The story so far: The University of Nevada-Las Vegas partnered with developers Majestic Realty on a proposal for a new domed 40,000-seat football stadium, which soon turned into an $800 million,...
View ArticleUNLV to “look creatively” for ways to get someone else to pay for its domed...
Have you ever bought anything really expensive that you want but don’t absolutely need, like a car or a house or a Death Star? In my experience, it goes something like this: 1) Figure out what you can...
View ArticleWhat hasn’t anybody proposed building in Vegas yet? Soccer stadium? Soccer...
If you thought that Las Vegas already had more stadium and arena plans than you could shake a stick at, well, you’d better go get yourself a better stick. To not shake. At stadiums. Anyway: The Cordish...
View ArticleUNLV stadium would turn $14m annual profit, if you ignore how to find $714m...
Anybody want to read a stupid article? Sure you do! Here, let’s start with the headline: UNLV stadium could generate up to $13.9 million in profits, report says As a refresher, that’s the domed college...
View ArticleLas Vegas council votes to create TIF district for soccer stadium, has no...
TIFs! The Cordish Companies’ Las Vegas soccer stadium plan has got TIFs! The first baby step of creating a tourism improvement district on the 59 acres downtown at Symphony Park was approved with scant...
View ArticleCowboys/Yankees-owned consultants project giant impact for UNLV stadium,...
Last week was pretty busy, so let’s check if we missed any stadium news items in all the excitement over giant impaled light switches and whether the Oakland A’s will be evicted. Okay, here we go:...
View ArticleLas Vegas soccer stadium developer says he knows a guy who says he can get an...
Justin Findlay, the guy who is working with Cordish Companies to build an MLS stadium in Las Vegas so that Cordish can keep its expiring option on downtown land open, says that he can so totally get an...
View ArticleUNLV stadium board member: Big ol’ sales tax hike would foot stadium bill nicely
When the University of Nevada-Las Vegas proposed building a $900 million football stadium back in February, school president Don Snyder said he would “look creatively” for ways to fund it....
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