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#PacificWatch: #VegasReport: The Sphere reproduces @JCBliss

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 19 October 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#PacificWatch: #VegasReport: The Sphere reproduces  @JCBliss

1945 Las Vegas Airport

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0:00.0

This is CBS, Isle of World, I'm John Bachelor.

0:03.3

Pacific Watch, beginning with the Vegas Report.

0:07.9

There is good news, very positive news for Major League Baseball soon enough in Las Vegas.

0:13.0

Jeff, a very good evening to you.

0:16.0

The Tropicana comes down.

0:18.0

That is where the ballpark is going up.

0:20.0

Where are they in the ballpark?

0:22.0

What does it look like development around the ballpark?

0:24.7

Good evening to you.

0:25.7

Good evening, John. Right now there's a very tall wall that surrounds the entire property several acres of course.

0:34.8

You could see as of earlier this week you could see a couple large piles of rubble.

0:40.7

But they are already in there getting going as quick as they can even though it's

0:45.0

2024 right now they're looking at a 2028 opening they have a lot of work to do

0:50.0

not just to build the ball field but apparently several other buildings that were

0:54.4

depicted in renderings they released this week which include an adjacent hotel

0:59.7

and another complex or two that may involve gambling and entertainment.

1:03.6

It's quite large.

1:05.9

It's not the ballpark originally I thought was going to be more freestanding by itself, but in

1:11.2

true Vegas fashion, you know real estate is very expensive there and they try to use everything they can.

1:15.0

So it's going to be surrounded by other buildings.

1:18.0

My memory is that the Oakland A's arrived in 2027 or is it 2026?

1:24.0

Oh, it's actually in Vegas it'll be 2028.

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