Honoring the request would waive a requirement to suspend the casino resort’s license because of its April 2 closure. One of the last remaining relics of 1950s Las Vegas is currently being demolished to make way for a Major League Baseball stadium and casino hotel.
So far, the parking structure, along with the porte cochere shading its Las Vegas Boulevard entrance, have been reduced to rubble.
According to the Tropicana’s closure application, demolition and site-clearing must be completed by April 1, 2025 so the Oakland A’s can begin building their planned $1.5 billion, 33,000-seat ballpark, which they plan to open in time for the 2028 baseball season.
The closure application requests up to three years — two years plus extensions — to clear the site and develop the stadium.
“Bally’s has every reason to promptly reopen a new resort hotel when construction is completed,” representatives of the company wrote in its application letter. “That said, the design, land use permitting and construction plan for the baseball stadium, as well as a year-long demolition project, must be accomplished before the company can pursue in earnest development of the new resort hotel.
“Thus, the anticipated duration of the closure is currently unknown.”
