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The Tampa Bay Rays have until Dec. 1 to declare whether they want to commit to the construction of a $1.3 billion stadium originally voted on in July. Pinellas County Court Commission Chairperson ...
(The Center Square) — The Tampa Bay Rays said in a letter released Tuesday that the team has suspended work on a new $1.2 billion stadium in St. Petersburg, but say they'll "work with any ...
On September 19, 2023, the Tampa Bay Rays announced plans to build a new stadium adjacent to their current stadium, Tropicana Field. [6] The proposal involves redeveloping the entire 86-acre (34.8 ha) site, with the new ballpark within that boundary and adjacent to the current ballpark, which will subsequently be demolished. [7] [8]
Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg talks during a news conference in 2023 announcing plans for a new stadium. Those plans have been sidetracked in the wake of Hurricane Milton.
That leaves the Rays' future in St. Petersburg in limbo. “We know we’re going to be in Steinbrenner in 2025 and we don’t know much beyond that," Auld said in an interview. Asked if Major League Baseball can survive long term in the Tampa Bay area, Rays Principal Owner Stuart Sternberg said the outlook is "less rosy than it was three weeks ...
Pinellas County, Florida, and the St. Petersburg City Council recently voted to delay approving the sale of bonds to fund a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays, according to Fox 13. Had the funds ...
The linchpin of the project is the planned roofed stadium, scheduled to open for the 2028 season. It caps years of uncertainty about the Rays’ future, including possible moves across the bay to Tampa, or to Nashville, Tennessee, or even to split home games between St. Petersburg and Montreal, an idea Major League Baseball rejected.
The tumultuous series of events came after Hurricane Milton ripped the roof off Tropicana Field on Oct. 9, forcing the Rays to play the 2025 season at the spring training home of the New York Yankees, 11,000-seat Steinbrenner Field in Tampa. Then, the Pinellas County Commission postponed a planned Oct. 29 vote on the bond issue that the Rays ...