The impact of a vanishing housing supply in Southern Nevada ripples its way through the local rental market this summer with little relief in sight. Driven by the area’s ...
In an Amazon world, a decidedly offline experience forms the core of the Vegas Golden Knights merchandising strategy. It starts at the photo-op armored knight statue ...
More than 4.2 million passengers traveled through McCarran International Airport last month, marking the busiest May in the facility’s history. That number bests the airport’s total from ...
The Golden Knights name and logo still officially do not belong to the team, leading the franchise to advance this month the legal battle to own its trademark rights. On behalf of the Golden Knights, attorneys for the NHL responded to the initial trademark refusal of ...
Linda McMahon knows how to navigate daily drama and shifting storylines at work. In fact, she built a billion-dollar global business that sells both as fun. Running World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) prepared her well for the maelstrom of politics in the era of President Donald Trump, her good friend who appointed her as administrator of the federal Small Business Administration. Here are excerpts of the conversation with the Las Vegas Sun: ...
If you build it, they will come. An estimated 1,300 people interested in being part of constructing the new Raiders stadium packed a Green Valley Ranch ballroom to capacity Thursday. Within the information they heard about the bid process and project team ran a clear message from construction partners Mortenson and McCarthy ...
The bulleted list in tiny print stretches four pages, listing 119 potential issues in a stadium-use negotiation between UNLV and the Raiders. Even that does not encompass the ...
Imagine this uniquely Vegas sports scene: top-shelf musical acts rock out on a stage jutted from the stands between periods of an NHL game while tanned celebrities in comped luxury suites sip free cocktails. That would be NashVegas, by the way. Nashville hosts hockey’s most raucous parties these days ...
The real work of hammering out a dozen contracts for the new Raiders stadium happens in the quiet, far away from public settings such as Thursday’s meeting of the Las Vegas Stadium Authority board. ...
The Raiders and UNLV football will both play games in the same new stadium in 2020, but they must establish the ground rules for how they share the $1.9 billion jewel in the coming months. The UNLV Joint Use Agreement, as it is referenced in official documents, tops Thursday’s meeting agenda for the Las Vegas Stadium Authority board. The board will discuss progress on talks between the team and the university, but will not ...
Summer usually ushers in prime homebuying season in Southern Nevada, but that could change drastically in 2017. A severe housing shortage continues to befall the valley, driving up prices and creating major competition among buyers for ...
Few of the greatest moments in UNLV athletics history reside at the far eastern end of Russell Road in Sam Boyd Stadium. On a 62-acre land parcel roughly 10 miles west on Russell, the Rebels will share ...
Parking at the new Raiders stadium will prove much harder to come by than a ticket to the game. The Russell Road site purchased by the team last month will hold less than 15 percent of the parking spaces required for ...
Finding Raiders games on local TV and radio became a bit easier today with the announcement of local partners for their games and team programming. Starting this season, Raiders preseason games will air on TV via Fox 5, which acquired ...
Any kid knows that it’s easier to persuade either your mom or dad to get what you want instead of convincing both. For the Las Vegas 51s, that childhood concept explains why Howard Hughes Corp.’s recent acquisition of full ownership of the team bodes well for ...
NFL owners today approved the Raiders’ lease agreement with the Las Vegas Stadium Authority, clearing one of the biggest hurdles in the team’s move to ...
With its heavy lifting done on the Raiders stadium lease, the Las Vegas Stadium Authority attended to procedure this morning, unanimously approving ...
The “lease heard 'round the world” arrived publicly with a leaden thud Jan. 26, an inch-thick paperweight drafted by the Raiders and preferred by few. The Las Vegas Stadium Authority saw the need for a total rewrite to align it with state legislation that provided $750 million in public money toward the facility. Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson saw nothing — he did not know ...
The Las Vegas Stadium Authority board today unanimously approved a lease for the Raiders to use a new $1.9 billion stadium. The vote ends concerns raised at last week’s meeting that a delay in approving the lease could push back the Raiders arrival in Las Vegas by a year till ...
The Raiders’ move to Las Vegas in 2020 appears to be back on track after a brief scare over reaching an agreement on a stadium lease. The Raiders and the Las Vegas Stadium Authority wrapped up negotiations today on a lease for the team’s events company to use a new $1.9 billion stadium for 30 years. Raiders President Marc Badain said at last week’s meeting of the Stadium Authority board that if the lease could not be settled before ...
The Raiders know the steps along a stadium negotiation high wire well enough to walk them backward and blindfolded. The seasoned executives on the Las Vegas Stadium Authority board have ...
The Las Vegas Raiders might not become a reality until 2021 if the team and the Las Vegas Stadium Authority cannot finish lease negotiations in the next two weeks ...
Lease negotiations between the Raiders and the Las Vegas Stadium Authority have intensified in the past few days as NFL owners set a soft deadline of May 23 for approving the document. League owners will gather in Chicago on that date for spring meetings, and they want ...
Thursday’s meeting of the Las Vegas Stadium Authority will focus primarily on a report to the board on the high-impact study being conducted by Clark County officials to determine the viability of ...
The lack of available homes, which drives up sales prices in Southern Nevada, continues to have an effect on the local rental market as well. The average monthly rent for a family-sized home in the Las Vegas Valley climbed to $1,328 per month, a jump of ...
A 62-acre land parcel west of the Strip off Russell Road no longer is the "preferred" stadium location for the Las Vegas Raiders. Instead, it is the confirmed site of the NFL franchise after ...
The 129th man selected in the NFL draft will be the first one chosen by the Las Vegas Raiders during their first public event here since announcing their move to Southern Nevada beginning ...
The first major league to play regular-season games in Las Vegas does not plan to do so again anytime soon. Mark Tatum, deputy commissioner of the NBA, said Tuesday that the league does not intend to follow the NHL or the NFL into the desert just yet. “The short-term answer is no,” Tatum said during a session at the National Association of Broadcasters convention at the Las Vegas Convention Center. “We’re not in ...
Thorny discussions remain for both sides to meet a September deadline for completing the lease and 11 related documents, even with the guidance of Senate Bill 1, the public financing vehicle that provides $750 million in tax money for stadium construction ...
Las Vegas Raiders fans can feel certain that the players drafted this weekend will form the core of the team’s roster when they arrive in Southern Nevada in 2020 ...
The Oakland Raiders will go on the clock in the National Football League Draft in six days, but the ticking on their move to Las Vegas already sounds like the "60 Minutes" stopwatch to local officials. Thursday’s two-hour meeting of the Las Vegas Stadium Authority Board highlighted just how much work needs to be packed into the next 40 months before ...
A surging housing market defying its typical seasonal slump and an unemployment rate steadying after the recession provide optimism for Southern Nevada’s ...
Seismic events followed the first meeting in which the Raiders discussed a lease proposal with the Las Vegas Stadium Authority board. Expect nothing quite so significant to emerge from Thursday’s Stadium Authority board meeting. While the session will be the first since NFL owners approved last month the Raiders’ move to Las Vegas in 2020, work on refining the lease draft continued ...
Like a half-dozen others who paid up to $275 to apply for the Las Vegas Raiders name when news of the team’s potential move surfaced on Jan. 29, 2016, Lane Blue saw ...
Room-tax revenues toward the new Raiders stadium in Las Vegas are projected to near $15 million in the first four months of collection before moving toward $50 million in fiscal year 2018. Those figures come from a proposed budget included in the agenda posted Thursday for next week’s meeting of the Las Vegas Stadium Authority Board. While negotiations on the team’s lease ...
It’s all about the paper. Las Vegas officially reserved its place in the National Football League more than two weeks ago. Cementing that move will require stacks of paperwork generated through months of continuing negotiation among the team, the Las Vegas Stadium Authority and UNLV. The stadium authority board will convene next week for the first time since NFL owners approved the Raiders' move. The board spent most of its last meeting ...
That Las Vegas Raiders season-ticket deposit you plunked down does not go toward your season tickets. No, your $100 reserves only the chance to buy a license to purchase those season tickets. Your money actually helps the Raiders pay their portion toward the new $1.9 billion stadium through a system of personal seat licenses (PSL) that provide the right to buy tickets instead of the tickets themselves. The Raiders launched a PSL deposit drive days after ...
The Oakland Raiders might need to find a home away from the East Bay sooner than expected. The Raiders and the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum Authority are engaged in a dispute over unpaid parking revenues that ...
Local fans eager to add Raiders apparel branded with the future home of the franchise might want to add this hat to their collection. They should know, though, that ...
Years before they open their new $1.9 billion home, the Las Vegas Raiders need to line up a few wealthy houseguests. What major events follow the Raiders and co-tenant UNLV football into the 65,000-seat facility will determine much of the project’s success, as the two teams will combine to occupy the building fewer than ...
The Raiders remain committed to finding a way to play in Oakland for the 2019 season despite word that the agency that oversees their Bay Area stadium will not extend ...
A Nevada company that purchased and foreclosed on homeowners association liens won a $2.2 billion judgment today in Clark County District Court against a ...
Las Vegas changed and the National Football League noticed, according to its commissioner. Roger Goodell spoke at length about the NFL’s shift in attitude toward its newest home market following the conclusion of the league’s annual meeting ...
Raiders coach Jack Del Rio grabbed a cup of coffee and sized up the large group of reporters surrounding his table at the AFC coaches breakfast at the Arizona Biltmore resort. “What might be on your minds?” Del Rio said jokingly. Here are ...
More than 10 hours into the most important day in his ownership of the Oakland Raiders, Mark Davis walked away from an interview in a lengthy foyer and spun his head quizzically left, then right and left again ...
The Las Vegas Raiders are official. The Oakland Raiders will move to Las Vegas and begin playing in the desert starting with the 2020 season. National Football League owners approved the team’s application to relocate to Southern Nevada at their annual meeting this morning at ...