A's File Permit for Las Vegas Ballpark, But Something's Missing From Renderings

As the A's await a green light from Clark County, Nevada to break ground on their new Las Vegas ballpark, the team has reportedly filed a land-use permit — a necessary step before the first shovels can hit the ground.

Friday, KTNV (Channel 13 in Las Vegas) obtained the documents the team submitted to obtain its permit, including new stadium renderings.

The renderings show many details of the proposed venue, including a parking garage.

Notably absent from the A's proposed plan: 5,180 parking spaces in that garage needed to comply with Clark County regulations. Via KTNV:

The Clark County Code requires the new stadium to provide 7,500 parking spaces based on a standard of 1 space per 4 seats. 150 spaces are required for 60,000 square feet of office space, leading to a total requirement of 7,650 spaces.

A 7,650-space parking lot makes sense as a minimum for a stadium that seats approximately 30,000 when the venue sells out. That's about 25.5 percent of the seating capacity. For comparison's sake, the Dodger Stadium parking lot features approximately 16,000 spaces for cars — about 30 percent of its 54,000-seat capacity, the largest among active MLB parks.

According to KTNV, "the team argues that the parking requirement by the county is excessive, given the ballpark's location in the Resort Corridor, where attendees are more likely to use other forms of transportation."

Still, 2,470 on-site parking spaces — 2,370 for the stadium and 100 for office staff — falls well short of the requirement, a gap that figures to be addressed between now and the time the project is approved.

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The A's will play the 2025, 2026 and 2027 seasons in Sacramento. If the venue opens in time for the 2028 season as scheduled, the A's will move to Las Vegas then.

Oakland hosted what figures to be its final Major League Baseball game in Sept. 2024, when the A's defeated the Texas Rangers on Rickey Henderson Field.

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In 2017, the A's introduced a "Rooted in Oakland" marketing campaign that promised to keep the team in the city it had called home since 1968. Yet within a few years, owner John Fisher was pursuing a "parallel path" of negotiations with Oakland mayor Sheng Thao and the city of Las Vegas for a new site to replace the Oakland Coliseum, which was badly in need of upgrades.

In April 2023, the A's purchased the Tropicana Hotel/Casino land in Las Vegas with the intent of building a new ballpark.

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