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The Cashman Center or the Cashman Field Center is a complex on a site in
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, Nevada. Operated by the City of Las Vegas, it includes
Cashman Field Cashman Field is a soccer-specific stadium in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. It is primarily used for soccer as the home field of Las Vegas Lights FC of the USL Championship. Originally built as a baseball stadium, it was the home of the Triple-A ...
and a permanently closed convention center. The center was mostly used for local events, but did host national events like the second 2008 Democratic presidential debate and the 2008-09
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Open Championships.


History

The center opened in 1948. The convention center closed in 2017. The final event was the Moscow Ballet in December 2017. The convention center will be replaced by a larger downtown expo center. The adjacent field complex remains open and in use. During the
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, the parking lot was painted with spaces six feet apart to enforce
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among the homeless people that were sleeping there while a shelter was being cleaned after an infected person had been at the facility.


References

{{reflist Buildings and structures in Las Vegas Convention centers in the Las Vegas Valley