Downtown Las Vegas's ballpark reinvented itself as a soccer ground after 35 years of Triple-A baseball. Cashman Field at 850 Las Vegas Boulevard North, part of the city-owned Cashman Center complex a mile north of Fremont Street, opened on 1 April 1983 with a Major League exhibition between the San Diego Padres and Seattle Mariners in front of 13,878 fans. The 26-million-dollar facility - grounds first used for ballfields in the 1940s and named for pioneering businessman James "Big Jim" Cashman - was designed by Tate and Snyder with 9,334 fixed seats and room for about 12,500 with berm and standing areas. For 36 seasons the park was the home of Las Vegas's Triple-A franchise, the Stars (from 1983) and later the 51s, farm club of the Padres, Dodgers, Blue Jays and Mets in turn. The building collected oddities that became lore: the Oakland Athletics played their first six 1996 home games there during Coliseum renovations; the 1993 season opener between the Montreal Expos and New York Mets made it the first minor-league stadium to host an MLB opening game; the annual Big League Weekend brought spring-training clubs to town, setting the attendance record of 15,025 for a White Sox-Cubs exhibition in April 1993; and the Triple-A World Series ran there from 1998 to 2000. When the 51s left for the new Las Vegas Ballpark in Summerlin after 2018, the pivot was already underway: Las Vegas Lights FC of the USL Championship had debuted at Cashman that year, sharing the field with baseball by repeatedly converting the infield to grass. The near-square footprint took a regulation 120-by-80-yard pitch surprisingly well, and a 2019 reconfiguration plus the 2024 Premium Deck of south-side suites completed the transformation into a full-time soccer venue, where the Lights won their first home playoff match that season. The complex's days are numbered - the city approved a 36-million-dollar sale of the Cashman Center land to homebuilder Lennar in 2025 for residential redevelopment - which makes the old bowl's late-life soccer chapter a bonus inning for one of the most storied addresses in Nevada sports.

Type: Stadium / Arena

Address: 850 Las Vegas Blvd N, Las Vegas, NV, United States, 89101

Website: https://www.lasvegaslightsfc.com

Capacity: 9334

Opening Date: 01/04/1983

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