Sisolak says Raiders want Russell site
The NFL officially approved the Raiders relocation to Las Vegas on Monday. So where will they be headquartered and train?
Clark County Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak said Tuesday he couldn’t provide many details at this time. “They’re exploring a couple locations, but they haven’t got any land locked yet,” he said. But Henderson Mayor Andy Hafen said Tuesday that a representative of the Raiders reached out to the city late last year.
“I haven’t talked with them directly, but I do know that our city manger’s office had been in contact with someone,” Hafen said. “We’re offering to help them in any way we can. If we can have anything to do with the Raiders coming, we’d like to do that.”
Henderson city manager Robert Murnane added that someone contacted them in November/December looking for parcels in West Henderson by the airport. “They never followed up with us about it,” he said. Raiders representatives also met with city officials last month in North Las Vegas about the possibility of building some facilities, city spokeswoman Delen Goldberg said.
The nature of the facilities wasn’t specified, and Goldberg said that potential sites were not discussed. No futures meetings with the team are currently planned, Goldberg said. portation report released in October recommending that NDOT build at least $899 million in freeway projects that were previously planned to handle heavy traffic headed in and out of the stadium.
Environmental studies are underway for a $150 million reconfiguration of the Tropicana Avenue interchange at Interstate 15, along with a separate project that calls for construction of direct-access ramps that would connect a new carpool lane on I-15 to exits at Harmon and Hacienda avenues, according to NDOT Director Rudy Malfabon.
Malfabon previously said that some freeway projects planned for Clark County might be delayed in order to accelerate the proposed improvements surrounding the proposed stadium sites.
NDOT officials have also said the county’s fuel revenue indexing money might be paired with state highway funds to pay for the projects. Earlier this month, several members of the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada’s board of directors said the Raiders should help pay for those transportation projects around the stadium. Review-Journal staff writer Art Marroquin contributed to this story. Contact Michael Scott Davidson at sdavidson@reviewjournal.com or 702-477-3861. Follow @davidsonlvrj on Twitter. Contact Jamie Munks at jmunks@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0354. Follow @ JamieMunksRJ on Twitter.