Two of four main levels of the Athletics’ $2 billion Las Vegas ballpark have now been poured, with construction accelerating on the 9-acre site at the former Tropicana. The lower concourse deck extends from the third-base foul pole around to right field, while the second-level concourse has been poured from the third-base side toward first base, according to A’s president Marc Badain.
“You can see that the first deck pour is already around out in the outfield, which is amazing,” Badain said Wednesday. “I was out on the site last Friday, and they hadn’t even started that. It’s amazing how fast they are going.”
Eighty-four percent of the stadium’s 33,000 seats will be between the foul poles. About half of the ballpark’s decks had been poured as of Wednesday.
Steel and roof timeline
Steel work in the bowl is scheduled to begin in March, with the fifth of six roof-support buttresses expected to be finished by month’s end. The sixth buttress is planned for completion in the spring. “Then you’ll start to see some of the roof steel in June,” Badain said. “The frame of building will really start to take shape in the summertime and early fall.”
Escalators are expected on site within weeks, with installation to follow. Between 400 and 500 workers are on site daily, and the project has logged 196,000 craft-worker hours so far.
A gap between the ends of the lower concourse — visible on the A’s ballpark construction camera at the MGM Grand — will be filled with a massive steel-curtain glass wall offering views of the Strip from inside the stadium.
Permit progress
The A’s have submitted over $1 billion in building permit applications to Clark County. Eleven applications total $1.02 billion, with permits for foundations, concrete structure, and primary steel and seating already issued. The largest outstanding permit is for core and shell at $500.6 million. Other supplemental applications include precast steel ($23 million), precast seating ($23 million), electric conduit ($939,000), deep underground conduit ($4.2 million), and cold form metal framing ($3 million).
Las Vegas Stadium Authority chairman Steve Hill, who also leads the LVCVA, said he is impressed by the pace. “When you’re building that structure and not doing all of the finish work, it looks like it’s going up really fast, and it is,” Hill said Tuesday. “It’s been super fun to watch that go up.”
The A’s will provide further updates at next week’s Stadium Authority board meeting.
