The Oakland Athletics are putting all of the pieces in place for an impending move to Las Vegas while the franchise waits for MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred to put the move to a vote of MLB team owners.
The Athletics have selected a joint venture of Minneapolis-based Mortenson and St. Louis-based McCarthy as the construction manager for a $1.5B, 35,000-seat ballpark with a retractable roof on a 49-acre site on Las Vegas Boulevard.
The Mortenson-McCarthy venture is the same team that managed the construction of a new home for the last professional sports team to ditch Oakland for Vegas: $2B Allegiant Stadium, now occupied by the Raiders' NFL team.
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