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육상 경기단, 17억 5천만 달러 규모의 획기적인 사업인 라스베이거스 경기장 건설의 신호탄을 쏘아 올리다

육상 경기단, 17억 5천만 달러 규모의 획기적인 사업인 라스베이거스 경기장 건설의 신호탄을 쏘아 올리다

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June 26th, 2025

육상 경기단, 17억 5천만 달러 규모의 획기적인 사업인 라스베이거스 경기장 건설의 신호탄을 쏘아 올리다

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Summary🇰🇷 한국어

mak
just; only...
태동하는
tae-dong-h...
emerging
웅장함의
ung-jang-h...
of grandeu...
풍경을
pʰuŋgjʌŋɯl
scenery, l...
배경으로
baegyeong-...
against th...
gat
just born
윤곽을
[yun-gwag-...
outlining
드러낸
deureonaen
revealed
토공
to-gong
earthwork
작업,
jag-eop
work / ope...
우뚝
u-ttuk
Steeply, u...
솟은
[sos-eun]
towering
건설
Geon-seol
constructi...
장비들,
[jang-bi-d...
equipment
그리고
geurigo
and
미래의
mi-rae-ui
future
애슬레틱스
ae-seul-le...
Athletics
야구장
ya-gu-jang
baseball s...
hom
home
플레이트가
peul-lei-t...
home plate
놓일
[no-il]
to be plac...
바로
baro
right / di...

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🇺🇸 English

Against a tableau of nascent grandeur – earthworks sculpted into embryonic contours, the hulking sentinels of construction equipment, and the very locus destined to cradle home plate at the future Athletics ballpark – team proprietor John Fisher, addressing a capacious assembly Monday forenoon, articulated a singular, declarative pronouncement: “We are, unequivocally, Vegas’ team.”

Under the watchful eyes of MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, a coterie of state and local government luminaries, Athletics legends the likes of Rollie Fingers and Dave Stewart, aspiring Little Leaguers, and a multitude of other attendees, the team commemorated the commencement of construction on a colossal $1.75 billion, 33,000-spectator-capacity ballpark, slated for completion in anticipation of the 2028 season.

Nevada and Clark County have sanctioned a maximum of $380 million in exchequer funds for the undertaking.

"Team president Marc Badain asserted unequivocally that completion by 2028 was a foregone conclusion, adding that the readily available and highly capable local workforce stood poised to execute the project without delay."

"The palpable validation inherent in this juncture is gratifying, prefiguring a transformative triennium for the community, the construction project, attendant employment opportunities, and a panoply of ancillary benefits that will inexorably accrue as this edifice commences its ascendance, possibly as early as this evening."

Badain, mirroring his trajectory, previously orchestrated a comparable paradigm shift during his tenure with the NFL's Raiders, functioning as a pivotal cog in the machine that propelled the franchise's relocation from Oakland to Las Vegas in 2020, concurrently spearheading the approvals process and subsequent construction of the $2 billion Allegiant Stadium—a veritable colossus of modern sporting architecture.

Pending the culmination of construction on Allegiant Stadium, the Raiders were compelled to endure a three-season purgatory in Oakland, cohabitating the antiquated Coliseum with the A’s; however, while the Raiders managed to preserve a vestigial, albeit attenuated, connection to the Bay Area populace even amidst their lame-duck status, A’s adherents were profoundly incensed by the ineluctable relocation of their franchise and the attendant machinations.

The unsustainable conditions in Oakland precipitated the franchise's departure following a final season in the obsolescent stadium, with the Athletics now commencing a minimum three-year interregnum at a Triple-A facility in West Sacramento, California, pending their definitive relocation to Las Vegas.

"Fisher elucidated, 'As a deeply-rooted local contingent, our strategic ingress point lies with the nascent supporter base; the acquisition of juvenile allegiance invariably precipitates parental conversion. The temporal investment is surprisingly minimal; the true protracted endeavour resides in the cultivation of a perennial victor.'"

"Our overarching objective remains to synergistically leverage existing foundations, recognizing that the construction of a high-performing team, akin to any complex infrastructural project, necessitates a protracted and occasionally frustrating gestation period reminiscent of erecting a stadium; however, we are confident that we possess the requisite synergistic components to architect a paradigm of enduring success."

Encompassing nine acres of Bally's thirty-five acre landholding at the intersection of Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard, the projected stadium site was only recently made available following the overnight razing of the Tropicana's resort towers in October, a calculated act of demolition designed to preemptively resolve spatial constraints.

Cognizant of their liminal existence, the Oakland Athletics are attempting to reconcile the exigencies of maximizing their present circumstances with the imperative of future-proofing their franchise; each player's uniform, tellingly, features a Sacramento Tower Bridge patch on one sleeve and a Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority logo on the other, a sartorial manifestation of their triennial sponsorship agreement and a tacit acknowledgment of their bifurcated allegiances.

Culminating a protracted negotiation, the Las Vegas Stadium Authority ratified in December the definitive instruments governing leasehold, non-relocation covenants, and developmental contingencies, thereby clearing the final regulatory hurdles antecedent to the Athletics' prospective transplantation and ascendance as Las Vegas' resident franchise.

Architectural visualisations depict a multi-tiered stadium, its quintuple overlapping strata evincing a palpable debt to the iconic Sydney Opera House, while a vast glazed aperture beyond the outfield dissolves the boundary between interior and exterior, affording players and spectators alike panoramic vistas of the Las Vegas Strip; moreover, eschewing a conventional centralised climate control architecture, an innovative system of localised air conditioning will be integrated directly into the seating infrastructure.

The projected venue will constitute MLB's most diminutive ballpark, notwithstanding Tropicana Field, the Tampa Bay Rays' customary domicile, which, in its selectively truncated configuration, accommodates a mere 25,000 spectators, a figure otherwise dwarfed by its near-40,000 full seating capacity.

Beset by infrastructural vicissitudes in the wake of Hurricane Milton's decimation of their erstwhile domed stadium, the Tampa Bay Rays, analogous to the Oakland A's, are currently compelled to prosecute their season at a Triple-A venue, whilst the long-term locus of the franchise remains indeterminate, further compounded by the imminence of a potential ownership transfer.

Progressive Field, the venerable Cleveland ballpark, currently accommodates a reduced capacity of 34,830 spectators, a consequence of strategic downscaling from its original 1994 configuration which boasted a more capacious 43,345 seats.

The Oakland Athletics are poised to become Las Vegas's fourth major professional sports franchise, augmenting a burgeoning market already populated by the Raiders, the NHL's Golden Knights, and the WNBA's Aces.

"Manfred posited that the confluence of propitious demographics, the demonstrated triumph of alternative sporting franchises, and the substantial influx of tourism constitutes a triadic foundation rendering Las Vegas an exceptionally fertile market for our venture, adding, with unwavering conviction, that the prospective team's resounding success in this locale is a foregone conclusion."

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