#PACIFICWATCH: #VEGASREPORT: HOLLYWOOD 2.0. ARMADILLO MLB STADIUM;@JCBLISS
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 8 March 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS, high in the world. I'm John Batchel. Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch. |
| 0:06.0 | We go immediately to Vegas report. The wonderful news of the team arriving in a few years' time from Oakland, the Athletics, the Oakland A's. |
| 0:17.0 | Now is met by the wonderful news of a concept drawing of what the stadium will look |
| 0:23.3 | like. Jeff, a very good evening to you. I believe in the metaphor choice for describing |
| 0:29.3 | Armadillo was mentioned. What's it look like to you, Jeff? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. |
| 0:35.0 | The proposed Vegas ballpark, and I say proposed because it has been built yet, |
| 0:40.3 | it will go for about 1.75 billion or so when it comes to total construction costs. |
| 0:46.3 | And this building, what you refer to as armadillo shaped, is what the architect called, |
| 0:51.3 | it trying to capture some of the flavor of the surrounding southwest environment there. |
| 0:57.1 | And, you know, when I first looked at it, my first thinking was it kind of reminds me of the Sydney Opera House with the shells, you know, nestled within each other. |
| 1:05.8 | And again, another great piece of architecture taken from its surroundings. |
| 1:10.4 | But this one is massive compared to |
| 1:13.0 | the Sydney Opera House, and that it has, you know, giants, you know, glass curtains in the |
| 1:18.3 | outfield, a climate-controlled space, and it just, you know, has all the bells and whistles of the |
| 1:23.9 | new ballparks and then some. And I'm sure they'll add new ones as the time goes on |
| 1:28.1 | before they open it up in 2028. But this will really be one of the architectural wonders of the world, |
| 1:34.3 | at least the sports world, when it opens up. It's just gorgeous. And it faces north. I learn from |
| 1:40.1 | the architects that that is a great advantage because you do not get direct sunlight. |
| 1:46.3 | So that you're, it's like the famous painters. |
| 1:49.1 | They always wanted a north facing window in Paris. |
| 1:53.0 | And North will allow them to do things. |
| 1:55.4 | Like I think they have a lounge bar that has a view of the stadium so that they that's where they make their money right |
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