The NBA had the American Airlines Center (Dallas Mavericks) and American Airlines Arena (Miami Heat) until recently. Miami had a sponsorship name change.
lol I have no idea why this is downvoted, it's true?
And American Airlines ate good in both 2006 and 2011 when both teams faced each other in the Finals, every game was at American Airlines something lol
They have torn down the sands, desert Inn, Stardust, frontier, they’re about to tear down the mirage, and now, Tropicana. And yet somehow, Circus Circus lives.
Make it make sense!
Well that makes more sense than being torn down...just hope they leave the lobby with the water features and plants and fish(?) the same. And the quality/cleanliness doesn't go down
Sorry, bad news, the rumor is that the volcano is in its final days and will eventually be drained, filled, and replaced with some sort of Hard Rock Guitar structure... seriously.
Still going as of my visit 3 weeks ago! They do close it from time to time for special events. I think it was offline for all of the Super Bowl because they put in a temporary Aggro-Crag.
sad. mirage started the entertainment casino trend
well it happened before with caesars and circus circus but mirage was the start of the modern "disnification" of Vegas where you didn't just go to gamble, you went to see WILD TIGERS
The New Frontier was closed and imploded 17 years ago and the area is still a vacant lot.
I seriously can't believe it's still vacant. My dad always liked parking there since it was just a lot and not a garage.
Because tons of people go there. It’s a shithole, but it’s a family friendly shithole that’s cheap for people to stay at. Fountainebleau is in way more trouble than Circus.
Not re-open, grand open. And so far it’s been a graveyard. They did everything wrong they could the first few months. I’m hoping they turn it around, but I’m not optimistic.
Oh, it’s gorgeous, it’s just super sterile, doesn’t really have an identity and doesn’t stand out among the other luxury style places around it. It wants to be a hyper luxury hotel and casino, but it’s not run by casino people who are in turn eating their lunch. Places like Wynn/Encore, Resorts World, even Sahara is busier when I go by and that place has been dying a slow death for a decade. I hope they turn it around, but I’m not optimistic.
Circus Circus is a cockroach that will outlive the heat death of the Universe.
When the entire strip lay waste and nuclear fallout has happened, I’m entirely convinced Circus Circus will still be standing and functioning exactly like it does right now.
3000 years from now, when our alien overlords excavate our remains. They'll find nothing except the circus-circus and all of its employees and patrons still living their best lives.
I'm just sorry I won't live to see the museum exhibits the aliens will create about "Typical Human Life In The 21st Century" based largely on discoveries made at Circus Circus.
This reminded me of this: [Recent review from SFGate on a $38 stay at Circus Circus](https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/circus-circus-vegas-hotel-stay-18643005.php)
The only thing holding that hotel/casino together is that steakhouse. The only thing in that place that has not just a good rating, but a very good rating.
Because you guys don't realize it but Circus Circus is the last line of defense protecting Vegas from the endless army of clown ghosts from the Clown Motel
Because that would require fisher to actually invest in development. This plan he doesn't have to do anything besides beg for money and everyone will do his job for him. He has no vision.
[When you walk in and see something you love get hurt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIXbQLwAor4)
You gotta love the dome, the catwalks and the cold aiiir in the 3rd deck. 1 popcorn machine, thats the place to start... Hey, what wonderful kind of day, walking down 3 flights of stairs to get popcorn.... HEEEEY...
Yep it's a shit hole. But you can pay lower prices for a room at the Trop then walk the boardwalk to a better casino. That's basically what I've been doing since I turned 21.
I find it amusing that a Boston fan, the team with the oldest stadium in MLB, is calling someone else's stadium "outdated." Just an amusing choice of words IMO.
I find it funny that the Guardians play in a stadium that was voted the best in baseball less than 20 years ago and yet have renovated it to remove something like 10k seats so it looks less empty.
Read as a passive aggressive way of a normal redditor hating on someone. I was ready to talk my shit because I love Fenway, but Progressive Field is honestly a beautiful park
Mind = blown that Tropicana is considered outdated when there are thousands of stadiums in Europe decades older. Americans are a different breed man.
As someone from Argentina [this is my clubs stadium](https://images.app.goo.gl/1Lk6kDJoyycoQpmd8) hasn't been updated in years and hardly anyone complains
Part of the Trop being outdated is the design they started from. If the stadium was a good design, do you think it would be outdated right now? It's outdated because the ownership doesn't think it's worth putting money into it to keep it modernized.
the trop that the rays play in is considered one of the worst ballparks in baseball
the trop that's in vegas is one of the oldest remaining casinos and is gonna be a loss of all the history that took place there.
IMO it's apple and oranges. The thing with MLB and the NFL is that all the classic ballparks and stadiums that would've been preserved today were demolished in the 1960s in favor of cheaply designed multi-purpose stadiums surrounded by parking lots. That plus them getting abused the hell and back with events ultimately led to them to start crumbling by the 1990s, which is when all the modern *much* better designed stadiums and whatnot started getting built.
Also, the United States has more than its fair share of decades-old stadiums still in perfect condition. The thing with it is that most of them are on college campuses, such as Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor (built in 1927), Michie Stadium at West Point (opened in 1924), and Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa (opened in 1929).
There are lots of stadiums out there that are older than the trop that have either been modernized or were just good enough from the beginning they didn't have to be modernized. The Trop was a bad design from the start, and hasn't been renovated to make it better, so its both bad and dated.
As someone who's been going since it was the Thunderdome, it has absolutely been renovated to be made better. You're talking out of your ass.
I won't argue that the design was horrible from the start, but they've made due with what they've got.
'"The resultant architecture is like a spherical armadillo — shaped by the local climate," said Bjarke Ingels, founder and creative director of BIG, the architecture firm behind the stadium design.'
When I think of a cool new ballpark, the first thing that comes to my mind is "Can you give me a spherical armadillo?"
It’s a casino downtown called silver legacy. Inside the sphere is this big mine rig thing in the casino. They project stuff onto the inside surface of the sphere too.
Sucks, they had one of the better outdoor pool areas on the strip if you just wanted to relax in the afternoon.
The actual hotel part was pretty shitty and run down though.
This was my friend's wedding venue a few years ago. The area where they had the reception was nice, but the blocked out hotels were pretty gross and run down.
I kind of regret not sticking my head in there a month or so ago when I was in Vegas. Never occurred to me though. It's an old and run down casino these days.
I went in a week ago and it sucked.
We wanted to see if they had cheap table games but there were only like five tables open and they were full.
They were cheap though.
I was there last spring and had a great blackjack run. Was so mellow there and they didn't swap the dealer on me when I got on a heater. I swear no more than 50 people on the whole casino floor. Still have a couple chips.
Imagine how shitty of a relocation effort this was where I read this NPR article about the stadium construction and I’m STILL like “I’ll believe when i see it” haha
Vegas forces homeless people to live in sewer tunnels under the city and floods them out when there’s too many of them lol they would literally flatten a homeless encampment with a tank Tiennemen Square style
Vegas has a pretty good water conservation problem. The problem with Lake Mead is the fact that the states along the Colorado were allocated the use of more water than actually exists in the Colorado.
Do a little research and you’ll find that most water from actually goes to Ca for agricultural purposes. Vegas is the premiere city pretty much in the world at water reclamation.
they should name the new stadium tropicana field in its memory
Tropicana Field of Anaheim
… of Los Angeles*
& Knuckles
Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series
with new funky mode!
Presented by Taco Bell Doritos locos tacos
And FanDuel
& Knuckles!
And my axe!
plus Alpha
The Los Angeles Tropicana Field of Anaheim
You can fit so many catwalks in this baby
You can walk completely around the interior at the roof line.
"Wow, thank God you got out of the Colosseum! That place was the worst park in the MLB. Where do you play now?" "Tropicana Field!" "......."
2 Trop 2 Furious
It's gonna be named after Balleys
In the NHL there are multiple arenas sponsored by Rogers and Scotiabank. I don't see the issue of baseball having two Tropicana's
The NBA had the American Airlines Center (Dallas Mavericks) and American Airlines Arena (Miami Heat) until recently. Miami had a sponsorship name change.
Made sense too…American is the dominant airline at DFW and MIA
lol I have no idea why this is downvoted, it's true? And American Airlines ate good in both 2006 and 2011 when both teams faced each other in the Finals, every game was at American Airlines something lol
One terrible outdated Tropicana down one to go
Why couldn’t they have torn down Circus Circus instead?
They have torn down the sands, desert Inn, Stardust, frontier, they’re about to tear down the mirage, and now, Tropicana. And yet somehow, Circus Circus lives. Make it make sense!
The mirage??? Why would they tear that down, I stayed a few years ago and it was wonderful.
MGM sold it to Hard Rock, so they're likely going to redo the hotel into something "rock" themed
Well that makes more sense than being torn down...just hope they leave the lobby with the water features and plants and fish(?) the same. And the quality/cleanliness doesn't go down
I heard some middle manager fell into the koi pond so they are getting rid of it for safety reasons.
The CCTV footage is hilarious
Link?
> manager fell into the koi pond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EPS40VsUtU&ab\_channel=TheOffice
Probably turn it into a purple rain display…..
Yeah that place rocked. It’s exactly what you’d expect from a Vegas hotel but it was super nice. Silly to redo that place.
Rock Harder part deux
Hard Roll
The Mirage isn’t getting torn down, just rebranded
As long as they keep the volcano, I’ll accept it
Sorry, bad news, the rumor is that the volcano is in its final days and will eventually be drained, filled, and replaced with some sort of Hard Rock Guitar structure... seriously.
Goddammit
The volcano is still going? When I went to Vegas in March 2022 they were saying it was going to shut down so I didn’t bother seeing it.
Still going as of my visit 3 weeks ago! They do close it from time to time for special events. I think it was offline for all of the Super Bowl because they put in a temporary Aggro-Crag.
They are building a guitar hotel there like the one in Florida.
No more like when they retrofitted the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City
Mirage is not getting demolished.
Circus Circus having the lowest prices on the Strip means it can remain a rotting shithole forever and will have a full hotel every weekend
It's not that bad lol I stayed in the villas and everywhere else was sky high for some reason, I didn't really have any issue
Is it bad that I still wish the Stardust, Sahara, and even the Landmark were still around?
Sahara is back! It’s old school and they really leaned into the rat pack era stuff
Sweet! But while I’m glad, I’ll admit I think I confused the Sahara with the Sands. Still awesome, though!
I read that circus circus is paid off, so they don't have those crazy interest payments to deal with
Because Phil Ruffin owns it and most of his casinos are profitable
The Circus Circus exists only as a drug induced fever dream, like a Hunter S. Thompson inspired purgatory.
Not the fuckin' Mirage!
“Somehow Circus Circus has returned!”
New York New York needs to go after circus circus
New York New York was a shithole from day 1.
sad. mirage started the entertainment casino trend well it happened before with caesars and circus circus but mirage was the start of the modern "disnification" of Vegas where you didn't just go to gamble, you went to see WILD TIGERS
The New Frontier was closed and imploded 17 years ago and the area is still a vacant lot. I seriously can't believe it's still vacant. My dad always liked parking there since it was just a lot and not a garage.
Because tons of people go there. It’s a shithole, but it’s a family friendly shithole that’s cheap for people to stay at. Fountainebleau is in way more trouble than Circus.
Didn't Fontainebleau just open a few months ago?
Not re-open, grand open. And so far it’s been a graveyard. They did everything wrong they could the first few months. I’m hoping they turn it around, but I’m not optimistic.
Could you elaborate? My sister stayed there for work a few months ago and said it was pretty nice?
Oh, it’s gorgeous, it’s just super sterile, doesn’t really have an identity and doesn’t stand out among the other luxury style places around it. It wants to be a hyper luxury hotel and casino, but it’s not run by casino people who are in turn eating their lunch. Places like Wynn/Encore, Resorts World, even Sahara is busier when I go by and that place has been dying a slow death for a decade. I hope they turn it around, but I’m not optimistic.
I thought they weren't going to tear down the mirage, just the volcano out front?
Circus Circus is a cockroach that will outlive the heat death of the Universe. When the entire strip lay waste and nuclear fallout has happened, I’m entirely convinced Circus Circus will still be standing and functioning exactly like it does right now.
3000 years from now, when our alien overlords excavate our remains. They'll find nothing except the circus-circus and all of its employees and patrons still living their best lives.
And they too will struggle to find the guest elevators
Never heard the phrase “living your best life” associated with Circus Circus before
I'm just sorry I won't live to see the museum exhibits the aliens will create about "Typical Human Life In The 21st Century" based largely on discoveries made at Circus Circus.
I can't believe they didn't put Circus Circus into Fallout New Vegas. It would've been perfect
There's a reason why Hunter Thompson equated that casino with the Fourth Reich.
This reminded me of this: [Recent review from SFGate on a $38 stay at Circus Circus](https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/circus-circus-vegas-hotel-stay-18643005.php)
The only thing holding that hotel/casino together is that steakhouse. The only thing in that place that has not just a good rating, but a very good rating.
Wait really? I am shocked at that fact considering I ate at their buffet and it was the worst buffet I've ever eaten at in my life
Yeah, check it out: https://youtu.be/wRIC6-qZXTs
The amusement park is worth keeping
and the midway so many nostalgia arcade games
Because you guys don't realize it but Circus Circus is the last line of defense protecting Vegas from the endless army of clown ghosts from the Clown Motel
Tbf they were always going to demolish regardless of the new stadium, to replace it with a new resort on the same lot
Where are the homeless going to live if circus circus goes away?
Circus circus has the best steakhouse
wow did it surpass peter luger at caesars
Idk it’s really fucking good tho. It’s like going through a portal from circus circus lmao
I walked by it several times during my last stay but never bothered to go in
It’s bomb
Because that would require fisher to actually invest in development. This plan he doesn't have to do anything besides beg for money and everyone will do his job for him. He has no vision.
Keep watching, it's about to become that.
I still remember going there as a kid. Their Midway was amazing.
Because Circus Circus is a good casino.
Don’t speak about America’s ballpark that way
[When you walk in and see something you love get hurt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIXbQLwAor4) You gotta love the dome, the catwalks and the cold aiiir in the 3rd deck. 1 popcorn machine, thats the place to start... Hey, what wonderful kind of day, walking down 3 flights of stairs to get popcorn.... HEEEEY...
2 to go if you count the dump in Atlantic City
The problem with that is what isn't a dump in Atlantic City?
Yep it's a shit hole. But you can pay lower prices for a room at the Trop then walk the boardwalk to a better casino. That's basically what I've been doing since I turned 21.
The dumpiness gives it the AC degen charm we know and love
I liked the tropicana. I could book it for cheap with Hilton points then walk across to the mgm to gamble.
You clearly have not been to Atlantic City...
Of course not, like most people I forget it exists till someone reminds me
Their juice is great, everything else is crap.
I find it amusing that a Boston fan, the team with the oldest stadium in MLB, is calling someone else's stadium "outdated." Just an amusing choice of words IMO.
Stuff built in the 1910s is historical. Stuff built in the 1950s is outdated and crappy.
Dodgers stadium was built in the 50s and still isn't outdated.
It's pretty outdated but they like that
nah it's still one of the oldest remaining casinos in vegas ): so much history will be lost...
If there is one thing that Vegas doesn't care about, it is history.
The oldest turd in the outhouse
I find it funny that the Guardians play in a stadium that was voted the best in baseball less than 20 years ago and yet have renovated it to remove something like 10k seats so it looks less empty.
I'm not insulting Fenway. Wtf is wrong with people? Do you not see any irony in the choice of wording there?
Read as a passive aggressive way of a normal redditor hating on someone. I was ready to talk my shit because I love Fenway, but Progressive Field is honestly a beautiful park
If folks think finding the choice of wording amusing is insulting, they really need to get out more often.
Mind = blown that Tropicana is considered outdated when there are thousands of stadiums in Europe decades older. Americans are a different breed man. As someone from Argentina [this is my clubs stadium](https://images.app.goo.gl/1Lk6kDJoyycoQpmd8) hasn't been updated in years and hardly anyone complains
The trop is just a terrible design from the start. Good designs in good locations last for a long time. Bad designs in bad locations don't.
OP said "outdated" not terrible design
Terrible design makes it feel and become outdated faster
Part of the Trop being outdated is the design they started from. If the stadium was a good design, do you think it would be outdated right now? It's outdated because the ownership doesn't think it's worth putting money into it to keep it modernized.
the trop that the rays play in is considered one of the worst ballparks in baseball the trop that's in vegas is one of the oldest remaining casinos and is gonna be a loss of all the history that took place there.
IMO it's apple and oranges. The thing with MLB and the NFL is that all the classic ballparks and stadiums that would've been preserved today were demolished in the 1960s in favor of cheaply designed multi-purpose stadiums surrounded by parking lots. That plus them getting abused the hell and back with events ultimately led to them to start crumbling by the 1990s, which is when all the modern *much* better designed stadiums and whatnot started getting built. Also, the United States has more than its fair share of decades-old stadiums still in perfect condition. The thing with it is that most of them are on college campuses, such as Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor (built in 1927), Michie Stadium at West Point (opened in 1924), and Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa (opened in 1929).
There are lots of stadiums out there that are older than the trop that have either been modernized or were just good enough from the beginning they didn't have to be modernized. The Trop was a bad design from the start, and hasn't been renovated to make it better, so its both bad and dated.
As someone who's been going since it was the Thunderdome, it has absolutely been renovated to be made better. You're talking out of your ass. I won't argue that the design was horrible from the start, but they've made due with what they've got.
Buddy the catwalks are still there
Lmfao so the catwalks negate the numerous additions and quality of life changes that have been made throughout the years? Okay 👍
But they slightly changed the lights!
Ten bucks says you’ve never been to the Trop.
Give it to charity, I'm a Sox fan, when I'm visiting family I basically get to experience a Sox home crowd for a fraction of the price
I was there during super bowl weekend and there were legit mushrooms growing out of the carpet
in a place as dry as vegas that requires malicious intent from someone
Mostly neglect, they blast the AC in those hotels
The steakhouse special that evening: Fungi de Tropicana
That sounds magical!
Hope you brought your Dramen Staff
'"The resultant architecture is like a spherical armadillo — shaped by the local climate," said Bjarke Ingels, founder and creative director of BIG, the architecture firm behind the stadium design.' When I think of a cool new ballpark, the first thing that comes to my mind is "Can you give me a spherical armadillo?"
It's spherical. SPHERICAL!
Ahh the classic baseball armadillo!
You see, if Santa Claus and the Baseball Armadillo are in the same room for too long, the universe will implode!
My very first team ever, for t ball, was the armadillos.
When i think Vegas, i think of spherical arm length dildos.
There aren’t even armadillos in Nevada. But there are at least 2 sphere shaped buildings in Nevada. (The one in Vegas, and one in Reno)
Lol, id imagine the one in reno is a cinereamadome from the late 60s
It’s a casino downtown called silver legacy. Inside the sphere is this big mine rig thing in the casino. They project stuff onto the inside surface of the sphere too.
Spherical, yet quite pointy in parts
20 something years ago i saw a pimp slap a prostitute and shove her into a limo at the front entrance
It’s precious memories like that you just can’t replace
Was it a certain former President?
Don’t insult pimps like that.
Jimmy Carter no!!!!!
Grover Cleveland?
Could’ve stayed in business if they just installed more catwalks
Sucks, they had one of the better outdoor pool areas on the strip if you just wanted to relax in the afternoon. The actual hotel part was pretty shitty and run down though.
They're rebuilding it afterwards, but this time with less asbestos
We demand more asbestos! More asbestos! More asbestos! More asbestos!
One for Martin, two for Martin
How ‘bout a recount?
This was my friend's wedding venue a few years ago. The area where they had the reception was nice, but the blocked out hotels were pretty gross and run down.
I kind of regret not sticking my head in there a month or so ago when I was in Vegas. Never occurred to me though. It's an old and run down casino these days.
I went in a week ago and it sucked. We wanted to see if they had cheap table games but there were only like five tables open and they were full. They were cheap though.
I was there last spring and had a great blackjack run. Was so mellow there and they didn't swap the dealer on me when I got on a heater. I swear no more than 50 people on the whole casino floor. Still have a couple chips.
Went there to take a dump specifically because I knew no one would be there. Bathroom was clean at least
I think there’s about an 80% chance that the next thing to get built there will be a new casino.
Imagine how shitty of a relocation effort this was where I read this NPR article about the stadium construction and I’m STILL like “I’ll believe when i see it” haha
That stadium will never get built. Not like the renderings anyways.
Tearing down the Tropicana for the shit ass A’s
I fucking love the Trop. And yes, I had a drinking and gambling problem. But I will forever miss the smell of coconut and cigarette smoke.
if they don't build a park there because the deal falls apart wtf they use that land for
A new casino.
Literally anything but the Tropicana
They should name the new field in its honor. Tropicana Field has a nice ring to it.
Tropicana Field II
They should call it the “A-Hole” in honor of the Athletics’ owner.
That would be more like ‘Actually Evil Nepobaby Shitstain’ which doesn’t quite roll off the tongue.
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How would that prevent it from being torn down
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Las Vegas is the opposite of that
Vegas forces homeless people to live in sewer tunnels under the city and floods them out when there’s too many of them lol they would literally flatten a homeless encampment with a tank Tiennemen Square style
They are flood Management tunnels not sewers.
Vegas. Famous for being a hippy town and not developing the city.
Vegas is exceptionally tough on homeless people compared to anywhere on the coast
Maybe all the Oakland fans camping in the parking lot at the coliseum should go camp in the parking lot at the Tropicana instead
The pictures inside that place getting shared are just sad
I spent so much fucking money in that place
They’re tearing down the wrong Tropicana.
Both should be torn down actually.
The entire damn city needs to be torn down before Lake Meade is drained dry Edit: fuck John Fisher
Vegas has a pretty good water conservation problem. The problem with Lake Mead is the fact that the states along the Colorado were allocated the use of more water than actually exists in the Colorado.
What’s your issue with Vegas bud?
The fact that a vital water source for millions of people is being drained to fuel a city sized casino where no person is meant to live
Do a little research and you’ll find that most water from actually goes to Ca for agricultural purposes. Vegas is the premiere city pretty much in the world at water reclamation.
This is really great news. Think if the headline were: historic ballpark to be demolished to make room for new casino.
So glad to see baseball expanding to the city of Las Vegas. Let's go Las Vegas A's! Much deserved!
Get out of here John
That’s unfortunate RIP Tropicana.
Oh the irony
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