LAS VEGAS (KGO) – The Tropicana Casino and Resort, one of the last true mob buildings on the Las Vegas Strip, was reduced to rubble Wednesday morning.

The Tropicana hotel towers collapsed during a celebration that included fireworks. It was the first implosion in nearly a decade for a city that loves new beginnings and has made casino implosions as much a part of its identity as gambling itself.

The implosion freed up land for the relocating Athletics’ planned $1.5 billion baseball stadium, part of the city’s recent rebranding as a sports center.

In August, Steve Hill, president and CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, said he was optimistic that three key documents needed to begin construction of a new stadium for athletics would be approved on Dec. 5.

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The three documents that need to be approved for the proposed 33,000-seat domed stadium on the Las Vegas Strip are the lease, non-relocation and development agreements. The lease was presented on Thursday without a vote.

However, there are currently no final renderings of the Las Vegas stadium.

A’s owner John Fisher is also struggling with his plan to relocate to Sacramento while he waits for his Vegas stadium to be built.

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To make Sacramento work, they need to tear up the turf at Sutter Health Park and replace it with artificial turf. And between the A’s and the Sacramento River Cats, they must play 156 games on that plastic for at least three years in the hottest six months of the year, in temperatures that regularly top 100 degrees.

Additionally, the Major League Baseball Players Association must still approve the changes to Sutter Health Park.

Despite all of this, the Fisher’s A’s hope to open their Las Vegas ballpark in time for the 2028 season.

Tim Keown of ESPN and the Associated Press contributed to this article.