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Oakland Athletics Say They Will Move to Las Vegas by 2027

After years of tense negotiations, the A’s said Wednesday that they had reached a deal to acquire a stadium site near the Las Vegas Strip.

Oakland Coliseum, the aging and often-empty home of the Athletics, is the fifth oldest active stadium in Major League Baseball.Credit...Jeff Chiu/Associated Press

The Oakland Athletics have reached an agreement to acquire land near the Las Vegas Strip and said Wednesday that they hoped to be playing games in a new, billion-dollar retractable roof stadium on the site by 2027.

The agreement on the 49-acre site in Nevada, which the team’s president, Dave Kaval, confirmed to The Las Vegas Review-Journal on Wednesday night, will end years of tense negotiations for a new stadium in the Bay Area, an investment the team said it needed to remain financially viable and competitive with its peers in Major League Baseball.