Tropicana hotel demolished to clear site for proposed A's stadium in Las Vegas

The Tropicana hotel in Las Vegas was demolished on Wednesday to make way for a proposed $1.5 billion baseball stadium for the Oakland Athletics. The event included a fireworks display, marking the city's first implosion in nearly a decade. Three key documents must be approved by December 5 to begin construction on the planned 33,000-seat stadium. These include lease, non-relocation, and development agreements, but no final designs for the stadium have been released yet. A's owner John Fisher is also dealing with challenges related to a potential move to Sacramento. The team needs to make significant changes to Sutter Health Park, and the players' association has not yet approved these modifications.