Game changer: Bally’s plans Strip resort alongside MLB ballpark

The proposed Bally’s Las Vegas calls for two luxury hotel towers with 3,000 rooms combined and a 2,500-seat entertainment venue. Photo by: Courtesy rendering

Bally’s Corporation plans to develop a resort on the Las Vegas Strip at the site of the demolished Tropicana Las Vegas, sharing a 35-acre campus with the planned Las Vegas Athletics stadium.

The project, dubbed Bally’s Las Vegas, calls for two luxury hotel towers with 3,000 rooms combined, a 2,500-seat entertainment venue, and more than 500,000 square feet of retail, dining and entertainment space, Bally’s said in a news release this morning.

The resort will also feature a casino and VIP access to the adjacent Major League Baseball stadium. The $1.75 billion, 33,000-seat ballpark will be ready by March 2028.

Bally’s is submitting the project for entitlements to Clark County and expects to break ground in the first half of 2026, it said. The development would combine hospitality with professional sports in a district designed to attract both tourists and baseball fans.

It’s similar to the near-stadium dining and entertainment options near other professional baseball stadiums.

Soo Kim, chairman of the board of directors for Bally’s Corporation, said in a statement that “we are not just building an integrated resort. We are creating a landmark destination that unites sports, entertainment, dining and hospitality on a scale only Las Vegas can deliver.”

“Bally’s Las Vegas represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to redefine the heart of the Strip,” Kim said. 

The company is working with real estate services firm JLL and Marnell Architecture on the development. JLL will handle retail and dining tenant recruitment.

“Las Vegas is one of the most important markets for food and beverage, entertainment and retail in the US,” said Michael Hirschfeld, vice chairman of JLL. “The extended hours of operation in the market yield some of the highest sales per unit in the country.”

The Tropicana, which opened in 1957 and was one of the Strip’s historic properties, was demolished in October 2024 to make way for the Athletics’ ballpark after the team announced plans to relocate from Oakland, Calif. The team is playing in Sacrament, Calif., through the 2027 season.

“This is an iconic location, this is going to be an epic ballpark, and there’s going to be no better place in the United States to watch Major League Baseball,” said Steve Hill, chief executive officer and president of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, during a groundbreaking event for the ballpark this summer.