casino billionaires<\/a>) to voice opposition to the NFL coming to town or funding plans that call for $750 million in hotel occupancy taxes.<\/span><\/p>\nIts purpose is to solicit comments directly relevant to air traffic control, from aviation experts who may have unique insight into impacts that the FAA previously hadn’t considered. <\/span><\/p>\nAccording to the FAA’s website, public comment periods typically last 20 calendar days, but in this case, for reasons not made clear to the public, review of the Las Vegas Raiders stadium plans will last 37 days.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe future home of the Raiders is set to be built on a 62-acre plot of land between Russell Road and Hacienda Avenue, just west of I-15. For those familiar with the Strip, the area is west of Mandalay Bay. The field will be less than a mile from the busy airport runways serving Las Vegas. <\/span><\/p>\nFlight Delays<\/h2>\n
The Las Vegas Stadium Authority has put together a timeline that calls for stadium site work to begin in December 2017. But with the FAA’s final approval now most likely coming in October, two months later than the LVSA initially expected, work might not begin until early next year.<\/p>\n
Construction as planned should take 30 months, with the facility to be completed in June 2020, less than two months before the Raiders begin preseason play. That still should be plenty of time, but the project already has little wiggle room to meet NFL scheduling demands, so any additional delay breaking ground on land that’s presently vacant dirt dirt could be problematic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe Oakland Raiders lease agreement is up after 2018 in the Bay Area. Owner Mark Davis is expected to negotiate an additional one-year deal for 2019, but otherwise he’ll need to find a temporary home before the team makes its permanent move to Las Vegas.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Las Vegas Raiders hope to begin playing in their new $1.9 billion, 65,000-seat home stadium along the Strip in 2020, but that timeline could suffer a setback if plans don’t pass muster with the Federal Aviation Administration, which just issued its first report.\u00a0 On Wednesday, the FAA gave its initial findings that at 225 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":56863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,60,16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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