'It's amazing': A's president details progress of Strip ballpark construction

Mick Akers, Las Vegas Review-Journal on Feb 12, 2026

Published in Baseball

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LAS VEGAS — Work is continuing rapidly on the Athletics’ $2 billion Las Vegas ballpark, with two of four main levels of the stadium now stretching around the project’s 9-acre footprint.

The deck of the ballpark’s lower concourse has been poured from the foul pole on the third base line, with the pour starting Wednesday on a portion in right field, according to A’s president Marc Badain.

“You can see that the first deck pour is already around out in the outfield, which is amazing,” Badain said Wednesday. “I was out on the site last Friday, and they hadn’t even started that. It’s amazing how fast they are going.”

Meanwhile, the second level concourse taking shape over the lower concourse has been poured from the foul pole on the third base side, making its way down to the first base line, Badain said.

Eighty-four percent of the stadium’s seating will be between the foul poles.

About half of the ballpark’s decks had been poured as of Wednesday, according to Badain.

Upcoming work

Steel work in the bowl of the ballpark will begin in March; with the fifth of the six buttresses to support the ballpark’s roof set to be completed by the end of the month, Badain said. The sixth one is planned for completion in the spring, he said.

“Then you’ll start to see some of the roof steel in June,” Badain said. “The frame of building will really start to take shape in the summertime and early fall.”

Badain said escalators will be on site in a few weeks, with the start of installation soon to follow.

On a given day, there are between 400 and 500 workers on site; the project has already racked up 196,000 work hours by craft workers, Badain said.

A view of the ballpark construction site from the A’s ballpark construction camera on the MGM Grand shows a gap between the ends of the lower concourse. Most of that gap will be be filled with a massive steel-curtain glass wall to be constructed, providing a view of the Strip for those inside the stadium.

Steve Hill, Las Vegas Stadium Authority chairman, who also serves as the president and CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, said he is impressed with the pace of construction. Hill keeps regular tabs on the project; one of the screens in the LVCVA office has the A’s ballpark construction cam live feed running on it daily.

“When you’re building that structure and not doing all of the finish work, it looks like it’s going up really fast, and it is. They’re doing a fantastic job,” Hill said Tuesday. “It’s been super fun to watch that go up, and it will look like a year from now like it’s ready to open, but there’s still a lot of work to do, the detail work, that will make it everything that it’s going to be. But it’s gratifying to see it go up.”

The A’s will provide more project updates at next week’s Las Vegas Stadium Authority board meeting.

$1 billion in permit applications

The A’s have applied for over $1 billion in building permits with Clark County tied to ballpark construction.

As work continues on the 33,000-fan capacity stadium, the organization is applying for future permits in advance. The 11 permit applications submitted thus far total $1.02 billion. Permit applications already filed for all six of the main permitting packages account for $970 million worth of work.

Three of those permits, the foundations, concrete structure and primary steel and seating above main concourse, have already been issued. The A’s are awaiting permits for the roof structure, core and shell of the stadium and the interior build-out to be issued by Clark County. The core and shell permit carries the largest cost at $500.6 million.

Other supplemental building permit applications have been filed for including precast steel ($23 million), precast seating ($23 million), electric conduit ($939,000), deep underground conduit ($4.2 million) and cold form metal framing ($3 million). Of those, the precast seating and deep underground conduit permits have been issued.