The Oakland A’s plan to relocate to Las Vegas with the hope of having a ballpark ready for the 2028 baseball season. The site they’ve landed on is the current location of the Tropicana, which needs to be demolished before any construction on the site–ballpark or new hotel/casino–can begin.
The Nevada Independent wrote an excellent piece on the topic on Sunday, and we’ll get into some of that in a moment. But first, in their article they said the Tropicana’s website showed “no availability” past October 19, 2024. After looking at their website, that date has moved up significantly. The latest date that you can currently book a stay at the Trop is April 1 st . That’s in just a couple of months. It would also be the first step towards landing the A’s in Vegas to keep everything on schedule. Demolition is expected to occur sometime this summer as part of that schedule, though no date has been announced.
This could just be the Tropicana not keeping their bookings open too far in advance to limit the number of refunds they’d potentially have to issue if they did in fact have to close the hotel when there are still reservations on the books. Earlier this month Brodie Brazil mentioned that the Tropicana was still taking reservations through the end of the year in a few videos on his YouTube page. This could just be them scaling back a little bit.