John Fisher’s dream ballpark in Las Vegas is, by all accounts, proceeding smoothly. But his property partner, Bally’s, is causing issues for his vision of what the A’s game-day experience will look like come 2028 — to the tune of a potential $100 million hit.
Bally’s was supposed to build two hotel towers and a gambling hall to fill out the property’s landscape alongside the A’s new ballpark. That construction, however, is lagging behind, making it quite unlikely that the stadium area will look anything like its renderings by the time the ballpark opens. In an article published Tuesday, Steve Hill, the head of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and the chairman of the local stadium authority, told The Athletic that Bally’s still does not “have the financing in place to do it.”
