Las Vegas theme park to operate under new name

Tuesday, June 26, 2001 | 11:07 a.m.

The batting cages at a defunct sports theme park have reopened and the facility has taken on a new name.

The All-American SportPark at Las Vegas Boulevard and Sunset Road is now the Sports Center and Ted Lee, chairman of its new parent company, Urban Land Co. of Nevada, said the opening of the batting facility is the first step in retooling the park.

Slugger Stadium at the Sports Center is open from 4-9 p.m., Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and from noon to 9 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

Lee said the rest of the park will be open for special events and he and managers are in the process of determining what will go into the facility's arena. A Go-Kart track that had been sponsored by NASCAR under the previous owners also is expected to open later this summer.

Earlier this month, All-American SportPark Inc. turned the theme park over to Urban Land, which had been the park's landlord, to satisfy an estimated $20 million in loans and other debts.

All-American kept a 65 percent interest in a nine-hole lighted golf course and the Callaway Golf Center adjacent to the park. Urban Land, which also operates the Eureka Casino on East Sahara Avenue and the Eureka Casino in Mesquite, was issued a 35 percent non-voting interest in the golf course, now operated by a company known as All-American Golf Center Inc.