Harry Reid voiced support for a Raiders stadium.
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“If Las Vegas can come through, we’re going there”.
“Not to be hard, but we’re not negotiable”, said Sands President Rob Goldstein, speaking on behalf of billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson.
Should the Raiders get the necessary finances to go to Las Vegas, the potential move still has plenty of hurdles. Talk of a move to Las Vegas has been ongoing, and owner Mark Davis is clearly looking to make the move if a new stadium in the Oakland area is not possible. A stay in a room that cost $109 for the night would jump by roughly a dollar.
“It would be so negligible it wouldn’t even be worth being concerned about”, Goldstein said.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, the proposal has been met by stark criticism.
The next largest public share for a stadium was the $620 million the city of Indianapolis paid for Lucas Oil Stadium, followed by the $500 million paid in Minnesota for U.S. Bank Stadium. The proposed $1.4 billion dollar stadium is being reviewed right now by The Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee.
This is what the Raiders stadium might look like in Vegas.
They want Nevada lawmakers to approve the deal in a special session in September so they can present their proposal to National Football League owners in January. In fact, a Las Vegas ABC station KTNV poll showed 55 percent of Clark County residents polled oppose spending half a billion in public money for the new facility.
It remains unclear which way the owners are leaning. The Raiders, who once moved to Los Angeles and played there from 1982-94, have been unhappy with their current digs at O.co Coliseum.
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One of the big sticking points keeping the Raiders from moving to Las Vegas is how much public money will be used to build their new stadium.
