Tampa Bay officials OK funds for $2.3B stadium for Rays baseball team
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Hillsborough County, Florida, and Tampa officials have approved financing plans for a $2.3 billion mixed-use entertainment district featuring a new 31,000-seat baseball stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays, which is expected to open in 2029.
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Tampa council to vote on funding for Rays stadium
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Tampa Bay officials OK funds for $2.3B stadium for Rays baseball team
This week, the Tampa City Council and Hillsborough County Commission will get the pitch they were waiting for. They should approve the Rays deal. The agreement is materially better than the one first presented to the public and now includes meaningful taxpayer protections.
After nearly eight months of negotiations and about two decades’ worth of previous efforts, the Tampa Bay Rays stadium proposal is set to face definitive votes. The Tampa City Council will vote Thursday, with the Hillsborough County Commission following Friday.
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) - Leaders in Tampa take an important step toward making the Rays' new ballpark a reality on Thursday. City Council members are set to take a definitive vote on funding for the stadium.
The Tampa Bay Rays' proposed stadium deal is being discussed by Tampa City Council Thursday before what will be a key vote on Thursday. This was one of two important votes slated for this week that could clear the way for the team's $2.
The Tampa Bay Rays have secured what they hope will be the first of two stadium deal approvals this week. Tampa’s City Council approved a definitive agreement Thursday for a $2.3 billion baseball stadium on Hillsborough College’s Dale Mabry campus, 4-3.
Tampa City Council members on Thursday approved a new Tampa Bay Rays stadium deal, 4-3 . Council members Lynn Hurtak, Charlie Miranda and Guido Maniscalco voted against the proposal. The $2.3 billion deal will now head to the Hillsborough County Commission on Friday for another vote.
The 4-3 vote by the Tampa City Council came three months after a tentative agreement was reached for a stadium, which would include $967 million in tax money.
Hillsborough’s County Commission definitively approved the Tampa Bay Rays’ $2.3 billion baseball stadium proposal Friday. The vote was 5-2. Chris Boles, Harry Cohen, Ken Hagan, Christine Miller and Gwen Myers voted in favor of the deal. Donna Cameron Cepeda and Joshua Wostal voted against it.
The Tampa Bay Rays have the approvals needed to move toward construction at the Hillsborough College North Dale Mabry campus. Hillsborough County Commissioners agreed on Friday, in a 5-2 vote, to approve the deal.
A new stadium will be constructed for the Tampa Bay Rays MLB baseball team, and it will put the team in Tampa, rather than St. Petersburg, for the first time in the franchise’s history. Following Tampa City Council’s approval of the $2.
A day after the Tampa City Council passed its side of the Tampa Bay Rays stadium deal, Hillsborough commissioners on Friday did the same . The vote was 5-2. Chris Boles, Harry Cohen, Ken Hagan, Christine Miller and Gwen Myers voted in favor of the deal.
Hillsborough County, Florida, and Tampa officials have approved financing plans for a $2.3 billion mixed-use entertainment district featuring a new 31,000-seat baseball stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays, which is expected to open in 2029.
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