All Net Resort and Arena

Silver State Arena

The idea of turning the abandoned site of a Wet 'n Wild waterpark on Las Vegas Boulevard into a stadium begun in 2010, as Texas-based developer Chris Milam revealed plans for a "Silver State Arena" following the cancellation of Crown Las Vegas. It was set to break ground in September 2010 and open in 2012. Milam's company International Development Management would get the 27-acre land from Sue Lowden and her husband Paul, and atop build a 20,000-seat stadium at the cost of $750 million, using about $9 million a year in redevelopment district taxes.^[1] The project stalled after Clark County rejected a proposal to fund 15% of the venue with public money and nearby residents opposed construction.^[2] By the following year, the site was changed to nearby the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, where Milam would create a whole sports complex that included new ballpark for the Las Vegas 51s.^[3] The plans came to nothing and Milam "walked away" from the baseball deal.^[4] The site near Mandalay Bay is now due to become Las Vegas Stadium.

There was later another plan where the Silver State Arena would be near the M Resort in Henderson, financed by Chinese bank partners,^[5] but these plans also went nowhere.^[6]

All Net Resort and Arena

In 2013, businessman Jackie Robinson, a former UNLV student and NBA player, announced that he was planning on using the same site of the proposed Silver State Arena to build the All Net Resort and Arena, a $1.4 billion privately funded complex encompassing an arena, hotel and shopping project between the SLS Las Vegas and the Fontainebleau project that could attract an NBA franchise to Las Vegas.^[7] The arena itself would cost $670 million, being operated by Comcast-Spectacor (owners of another NBA stadium, Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center).^[8] Designed by the Cuningham Group, it was planned to open in 2017,^[9] but is delayed until 2018 or 2019.^[10] The 22,800 capacity arena would be the biggest arena in the NBA. The All Net Arena saw its ground breaking ceremony on October 29, 2014,^[11] and Robinson wanted to negotiate with Clark County expecting to begin construction.^[12] However, given the land is not owned by Robinson and the project hit financing problems, the project was still in limbo as of the end of 2015.^[13] Demolition of the property begun on 2016, and Robinson hoped to begin construction soon to get the arena finished in 30 to 36 months.^[14] In 2017, earth moving equipment and dirt haulers were working the 27-acre site,^[15] and the All Net group announced it had garnered the full independent financing^[16] and an expansion, adding in larger retail and convention space, and another hotel tower with 2,000 rooms standing at 63 stories tall.^[17] The Clark County Commission approved the project on October 18, 2017.^[18]