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The Tropicana, one of the most iconic casino resorts in Las Vegas, has long been a favorite of many locals and tourists. If you hadn’t heard by now, the Trop closed its doors for good in the wee hours of April 2, 2024, making way for a potential new A’s major league ballpark and a new casino resort.
The plans call for a little more than a quarter of the 35-acre site to be used for the stadium, with the remaining space being used for the new casino resort and common parking areas.
In April 2024, we originally came up with a list of potential names for the casino resort. However, less than two months later, more questions than answers have emerged about the fate of the new complex. So naturally, we made some adjustments.
Here, we list a revised list of the top potential names for the new casino resort to offer some historical context and humor:
Predictable Name Changes for the New Tropicana Casino
First, let’s start with the predictable names:
10. The Tropicana
As The Sahara learned when it tried to rebrand as SLS, it is sometimes better to keep the name and brand awareness you have had for decades. We expect that The Tropicana will follow suit.
The Tropicana is also conveniently located on the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue.
9. The Trop
See above. When it reopens, The Tropicana can name itself The Trop to signal its brand newness while maintaining brand awareness.
8. Bally’s
This naming option wouldn’t be the first Bally’s to grace Las Vegas. Not only has the Horseshoe recently replaced the Bally’s Casino on the strip, but Bally’s is also the name brand on several regional sports networks nationwide.
Bally’s operates a handful of other Bally’s properties around the country, including a temporary casino in Chicago, and may seek to create a Caesars-type hub-and-spoke model to bring its players from different markets to Vegas.
To expand on your Vegas history and the Tropicana, check out our article about the Horseshoe.
Fun Potential Name Changes for the New Resort
With the predictable names out of the way, let’s get to the fun ones:
7. The Tiffany
The Tropicana was once advertised as “the Tiffany of the Strip”, a reference to the famous jeweler.
6. Rickey’s
Rickey Henderson is the most famous and accomplished A’s player in modern history. The all-time MLB stolen base leader (by, like, a billion stolen bases) has seen it all and has the stories to back it up.
The most famous telling is that Rickey refused to cash his first million-dollar check from the team and framed it on his wall. Here’s to hoping every guest room in the new resort has a replica check from the A’s on the wall to commemorate Ricky!
5. Dodger Stadium Hotel
Dodger fans travel well, and with the most popular player in Major League Baseball on the team (that’s Shohei Ohtani, for the uninitiated), we expect that Dodger fans will vastly outnumber A’s fans when they play in Vegas.
4. The Blue
The Blue has a triple meaning. The original Tropicana was partly conceived by Ben Jaffe, who owns The Fontainebleau in Miami Beach.
Frank Sinatra, aka Ol’ Blue Eyes, may have owned The Tropicana at some point, according to the book The Green Felt Jungle.
Thirdly, Vida Blue was a great pitcher for the Oakland A’s in the 1970s.
3. The 57
The 57 pays homage to the year The Tropicana opened – 1957. The name has a double meaning: It also represents the over/under for the number of regular season wins that the A’s have had in recent years.
2. The Sandlot
Another double meaning here. The 1993 movie Sandlot was a classic baseball movie about a group of baseball playing friends. The other meaning is what the 35-acre Tropicana site might remain for some time to come after The Tropicana is demolished in the next several months.
We certainly aren’t rooting for The A’s to not move to this site or not move to Vegas altogether. However, recent media reports out of Chicago have indicated that Bally’s ambitious Chicago casino project has yet to be funded and financed. This is important because the Chicago project has a specific statutory timetable it must hit, meaning Chicago will be the priority for Bally’s – and not the redevelopment of The Tropicana. If that was not enough, Bally’s is also bidding for a coveted casino license in New York City – so if Bally’s wins that, Las Vegas could go down the priority ladder even more. In addition, Bally’s has never developed a project anywhere remotely close to the magnitude of what is being proposed for either Chicago or Las Vegas. So this may end up becoming The Flopicana unless MGM Resorts, Caesars Entertainment or another experienced Strip operator comes in to rescue this project.
1. The Flopicana
Fingers crossed that it’s not, but let’s see what happens next!
Let us know if you think of any others names.
