Former University of Nevada-Las Vegas President Don Snyder hopes a new state committee will help to develop a new stadium proposal for UNLV that could draw more events and people to Las Vegas.
Nevada Govern Brian Sandoval in July issued an executive order that created the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee to prioritize new projects and come up with funding.
Snyder hopes a proposed UNLV stadium packaged with improvements underway at the Las Vegas Convention Center and a proposed stadium on 42 acres of land located on 42 acres of land located on the northeast corner of Koval and Tropicana would gain approval from the new tourism infrastructure committee.
Snyder said a new UNLV stadium would be the proposal’s most important element.
“The stadium should be part of the tourism (infrastructure). The stadium is the missing link,” Snyder told the Las Vegas Review Journal. “It’s visionary of the governor to connect those three critical elements into the committee.”
Snyder helped secure funding for the successful Fremont Street Experience and Smith Center for the Performing Arts developments and told the Review Journal that packaging the three projects into one should prove successful.
The new committee is chaired by Steve Hill, who is executive director of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development. UNLV President Len Jessup is the committee’s vice-chairman.
