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Miniature Model of Las Vegas A’s Stadium on Display in Season Ticket Sales Office

Posted on: December 4, 2025, 02:49h.

Last updated on: December 4, 2025, 03:19h.

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Future Las Vegas A’s fans can view a model of the team’s proposed new stadium on the Strip
While visiting the exhibition, fans can also buy season tickets to attend games in the real stadium — should it actually be built

A miniature model of the 33K-seat ballpark the former Oakland Athletics are building on the Las Vegas Strip is now on display to the public in a preview and premium ticket sales office.

A 1:200 scale model of the Las Vegas A’s stadium on display at the Ballpark Experience Center includes a roof that lifts upward on poles — seemingly more than 1,000 feet above the upper decks. However, that’s only to provide an unobstructed view into the model. Though early concepts in 2023 included a retractable roof, the real thing will be topped by a fixed structure. (Image: The Athletics)

The 1:200 scale model, created by Las Vegas-based ModelWorks AJT, is the centerpiece of a 12K square-foot Ballpark Experience Center that opened this week at UnCommons, a mixed-use residential, retail, dining and event complex in Southwest Las Vegas.

Designs for the real stadium, which resembles the Sydney Opera House, include a fixed roof with five overlapping shells. Nicknamed the “spherical armadillo,” the shells create shade and climate control while filtering natural light into the stadium. (Image: Negativ)

The center also includes the Immersive Cube, a 270-degree digital projection room with 26.5 million pixels simulating views of the 33K-seat ballpark from its pitcher’s mound.

Other exhibits include a clubhouse-themed area housing replicas of the four World Series trophies the team won in Oakland (1972, 1973, 1974, and 1989 — though the Philadelphia A’s also won World Series in 1910, 1911, 1913, 1929, and 1930).

Finally, there’s a life-size elephant sculpture — a nod to the team mascot born in 1902, after New York Giants manager John McGraw mocked the Philadelphia Athletics by saying they had a “white elephant on their hands.”

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Here is the fake elephant in the room. The real one is whether the $1.75-$2 billion A’s stadium will actually get built. (Image: The Athletics.)

The Ballpark Experience Center is open by appointment only. This — and the fact that it’s about a 15-minute drive from the Strip — reveals its primary purpose: to sell season tickets and premium memberships to wealthy Las Vegas residents in a luxury car showroom-like environment.

One also can’t help but assume a secondary purpose — to sell the public at large on the notion that the $1.75-$2 billion stadium, promised in time for the 2028 season, will actually get built.

Though $380 million in public funding is secured for construction on the former Tropicana Las Vegas site, formal contracts for the remaining $1.6 billion are not — though Nevada officials have repeatedly stated that team owner John Fisher and his family have the equity to cover $1.1 billion. The rest is supposed to come from a $300 million loan from US Bank and Goldman Sachs, as well as investor equity that has yet to materialize.

Fans interested in an appointment to tour the Ballpark Experience Center can visit athletics.com/vegas.

Corey Levitan joined Casino.org in 2022 after a long career covering Las Vegas. He currently covers entertainment, dining and gaming news in Las Vegas.

Corey spent six years covering the Vegas Strip for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he also wrote the most popular humor column in the city’s history. (For “Fear and Loafing,” he tried out 176 Vegas jobs, including poker player, blackjack dealer and Follie Bergere dancer.)

Corey has won more than 100 local, state and national awards for his journalism, which has also appeared in Rolling Stone, New York Magazine and the New York Post.

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