Nevada regents are supporting a $50 million deal that would expand UNLV's campus by 42 acres.

State higher education regents today unanimously gave UNLV the go-ahead to purchase a $50 million, 42-acre plot of empty land near campus.

The UNLV campus is going to grow by 42 acres and gain enough ground for a potential new football stadium.

There were quite a few shakeups at UNLV in 2016: A new president, a medical school, a push for Tier I status. But one last change may hit before the calendar flips, as UNLV looks into partnering with Nevada Public Radio on their KUNV radio station. - See more at: http://vegasseven.com/2015/12/03/kunv-nvpr-remix/#sthash.UBYDtGzp.dpuf

If sports players can be traded, why not a stadium?

UNLV officials are looking at commercial developments including a 30,000-square-foot entertainment building, restaurants and retail stores as possible money-makers to help buy a 42-acre football stadium site at Tropicana Avenue and Koval Lane, near the MGM Grand parking garage.

UNLV officials are looking at commercial developments including a 30,000-square-foot entertainment building, restaurants and retail stores as possible money-makers to help buy a 42-acre football stadium site at Tropicana Avenue and Koval Lane, near the MGM Grand parking garage.

Nevada education officials have approved a plan to develop an outdated apartment complex near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, advancing efforts to house as many as 740 additional students near the campus by 2017.

Just east of this desert city's gleaming resort corridor, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas anchors a hardscrabble stretch of Clark County with early signs of college life.

They were built before the Environmental Protection Agency existed. Now UNLV is poised to regain four buildings it leased to the EPA and predecessors for nearly 50 years.

UNLV’s efforts to purchase 42 acres just west of the Thomas & Mack Center have been ongoing since March, but officials will have to decide soon exactly what they want to do with the land.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas hopes a deal to buy 42 acres for a 50,000-seat campus football stadium can close Dec. 18.