Facebook
Fark
Digg
Reddit
Stumble80,000-seat football stadium on mayor’s wish list
Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008 | 2:33 p.m.
Sun archives
- May 15, 2008 -- The many colors of Mayor Oscar Goodman
- May 15, 2008 -- Ron Kantowski would love to tell you Omaha has shown Las Vegas the best way to get a shiny, new, publicly financed arena — but he can’t
- Dec. 20, 2007 -- Your last chance, city tells arena developer
- April 23, 2007 -- Why Las Vegas should forget the NBA and build a new arena for special events
Beyond the Sun
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman floated a big trial balloon at this morning’s Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority meeting.
When the board of directors discussed a plan to seek proposals for a better use for the land where Cashman Center sits, Goodman shared what he wants to see: an 80,000-seat football stadium that would permanently house the National Football League’s Super Bowl and all Monday Night Football games.
“I thought I’d throw this out and let people chew on it,” Goodman said after describing the plan.
The mayor acknowledged that Las Vegas doesn’t have the best relationship with the NFL, considering the league’s stance on gambling and ban on the use of the words “Super Bowl” to market parties in casinos.
Goodman said capturing the Monday Night Football market would be good for Las Vegas because it could draw thousands of fans from different cities for extended stays in the city. He feels having a single venue for Monday-night games would be beneficial to the league on a number of logistical fronts and playing host to the Super Bowl would enable the league to take advantage of the city’s massive hotel room inventory.
“Believe me,” Goodman said, “they need us more than we need them.”
The LVCVA board also voted to extend the contract of the Skancke Co. Ltd. to lobby on transportation issues.
Skancke told the board that two of the new issues his firm will work on are upgrading U.S. 93 between Las Vegas and Phoenix to interstate highway standards and monitoring progress on the development of train service between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
Skancke said Interstate 11, as the U.S. 93 upgrade project has been dubbed, would eventually be built six lanes wide with right-of-way for a rail corridor. The LA-Las Vegas train study would include magnetic-levitation technology and proposals by Amtrak for conventional rail.
Discussion: comments so far…
Comments are moderated by Las Vegas Sun editors. Our goal is not to limit the discussion, but rather to elevate it. Comments should be relevant and contain no abusive language. Comments that are off-topic, vulgar, profane or include personal attacks will be removed. Full comments policy. Additionally, we now display comments from trusted commenters by default. Those wishing to become a trusted commenter need to verify their identity or sign in with Facebook Connect to tie their Facebook account to their Las Vegas Sun account. For more on this change, read our story about how it works and why we did it.
Only trusted comments are displayed on this page. Untrusted comments have expired from this story.
No trusted comments have been posted.
Post a comment
Most Popular
- Viewed
- Discussed
- E-mailed
- Coolican: Henderson officials out of loop on police brutality case, raising red flags
- Lumberjacks — ‘Where the Big Boys Eat’ — hiring for North Las Vegas location
- Berkley draws stark contrasts with Heller over immigration
- Two dead after accident in downtown Las Vegas
- Instant Analysis: Debating whether UNLV should continue series with San Diego State
- Howard Miller, prominent lawyer and ‘true Las Vegas native,’ dies at 68
- Superstar Whitney Houston dies at 48
- Short memories may serve president
- Police looking for man in white Ford Explorer
- Saying ‘No mas’ to government
Blogs
The Kats Report
Color from scene at Thomas & Mack: We have a wire job! Rebels win, and Louie Armstrong sings!
South Point owner Michael Gaughan's take on 'Vegas Stripped': 'I'll give it an 8' (4 Comments)
Author relishes writing the life story of ‘larger-than-life’ Oscar Goodman (3 Comments)
Elsewhere
Landowner: All roads could lead to Uxbridge casino
Revel reveals smoke-free casino opening
Cirque du Soleil show in Sands China casino to close this month
Meet the woman behind Sheldon Adelson
The Sun
Locally owned and independent for more than 50 years.
Oscar unveils a plan dated Apr. 1 but the date on the story is Aug. 12. Which to believe?
Great idea! Get 'er done!!!
Here is a copy of what I wrote and was printed in the LV Sun: *
Letter: Let’s put MNF games here
Fri, Oct 8, 1999 (9:32 a.m.)
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman should not be looking for a professional team to occupy a new downtown sports area. This is Las Vegas. Think bigger. We want every NFL team here.
We should be the permanent host for every Monday Night Football game.
We would have three-day weekends every week of football season with fans from two distant cities visiting Las Vegas. Hotel rooms would be occupied both Sunday and Monday nights. ABC would not have to move equipment weekly. Often the NFL has complained that starting games in the East at 9 p.m. gave fans too much after-work time to get into trouble; 6 p.m. here would be perfect.
It may even be worth the loss not to take bets on the Monday Night games. Let's see what the Resort Association and the Convention Authority thinks of funding this concept.
YES!
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman
Give the dreamer credit but it will never happen
For the first time in the history of mankind, I agree with you on something Sufferin. UNLV is long over due to have a stadium for football on campus.
Waste of money, the city will never recoup the losses and taxpayers will be left with the bill for years.
Don't be fooled people.
This would be better than 1 TEAM...We could use the stadium 16 weeks not just 8, and it would bring in outsiders unlike regular NFL games that draw mostly locals....If the stadium was built right we could reconfigure for the baseball all-star game also...So in reality with the Super Bowl we could fill the hotels 18 additional weeks...