Posted on 06/15/2024 2:23:17 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Who's picking up the tab for the new Tampa Bay Rays's $1.3 billion ballpark, where’s that funding is coming from, and other lingering questions were answered this week during a seven-hour-long discussion.
On Wednesday morning, St. Pete City Councilmembers, Mayor Ken Welch, and Rays executives hashed out the details of the stadium agreement during a Committee of the Whole workshop meeting.
On Thursday, St. Petersburg City Council preliminarily voted 5-3 to approve a development agreement for the new Rays stadium. The opposing votes came from Councilmembers Lisset Hanewicz, John Muhammad, and Richie Floyd.
Also passed were ordinances that will rezone 24 acres of the Historic Gas Plant District, and modify the Intown West Redevelopment Plan to accomodate the new stadium.
Another Committee of the Whole workshop is slated for July 9th and a second hearing and final vote is scheduled for July 11th.
Designed by architectural firm Populous, the enclosed stadium is set to be the most intimate in Major League Baseball (MLB) with a capacity of 30,000.
The latest renderings presented during the meeting showed a fixed glass roof and large windows and porches spanning across the walls, allowing natural daylight to pour in while keeping the stadium climate-controlled.
Per the current agreement, St. Pete will fund $287.5 million, Pinellas County will contribute $312.5 million, and the Rays are responsible for the remaining $700 million to cover the construction of the stadium that will anchor the redevelopment of the 86-acre Gas Plant District.
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I like the College World Series.......Go Gators!
3 walk-offs so far. Gators/A&M is delayed.
That’s sad that even with all the Cubs fans down there, they still can’t fill it.
With no public transportation, and the average commute to St. Petersburg from the rest of the Tampa-St. Pete metropolitan area, it’s just a bad location to put a stadium.
You listed both numbers as home attendance.
> Tropicana Field is the worst Ballpark in Baseball. A dump.
Though many will disagree with me, my choice for dumpiest stadium in baseball (that I’ve been to)is Fenway in Boston. Just a lousy place to see a game.
The Park Features are great. The Seats are awful. The Rightfield seats point at Center Field.
My bad, the 2.2 million was away. I was also going to average them.
Home Attendance 17,781 per game
Away Attendance 28,076 per game
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