Stadium Options Cross the Bay
Three of five potential sites being considered by a panel studying whether the Rays should leave Tropicana Field are in Hillsborough County.
Baseball committee considers three possible Hillsborough sites to replace Tropicana Field
Should the future home of the Tampa Bay Rays be in downtown Tampa? Or the West Shore district? Or even the fairgrounds in eastern Hillsborough County?
Those three options — along with potential sites in downtown St. Petersburg and mid Pinellas County — are all being considered by a panel studying whether the Rays should leave Tropicana Field for a new home.
Tampa, Hillsborough included as possible relocation site for Rays
TAMPA - Will the Tampa Bay Rays be coming to downtown Tampa?
Not if St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker has anything to say about it.
A group studying whether the baseball team should leave Tropicana Field has included three sites in Hillsborough County – downtown Tampa, the West Shore district and the state fairgrounds east Hillsborough – in a list of potential locations for a new stadium.
Tampa Bay Rays may delay referendum on new waterfront stadium
ST. PETERSBURG — The Tampa Bay Rays may soon abandon their push for a November referendum to build a $450-million waterfront stadium.
An announcement could come as early as today, city and county officials with knowledge of the Rays' plan told the St. Petersburg Times late Tuesday. The Rays have contemplated delaying a vote on the stadium until 2010.
Tampa Bay Rays fire stronger salvo in bid to get new stadium
ST. PETERSBURG — Feel free to interpret the comments of the Rays team president any way you wish.
You can look at his words as an insult. You can consider his observations to be whining. You can ignore his remarks altogether.
Or, you might want to consider this possibility:
$471,000,000
TAMPA - Four-hundred-seventy-one-million bucks.
That's the potential cost to turn Tropicana Field into a modern-day ballpark, according to a consultant's report. And even at that enormous sum, the Trop would have "substantial flaws," including too many upper-level seats and some seats with bad views, the report states.
The Tampa Bay Rays released a Tropicana Field Renovation Study that weighs the pros and cons of a massive upgrade to the St. Petersburg ballpark as opposed to building a new stadium. The study was done by Populous, formerly HOK Sport, for the ABC Coalition, a group of community and business leaders researching stadium options.
$471M Rehab Would Leave a Subpar Tropicana Field, Rays Consultant Says
Jun. 16--ST. PETERSBURG -- Even with a $471 million overhaul, complete with a retractable roof, supersized concourse and upgraded seating, Tropicana Field would remain a subpar facility with substantial design flaws, according to a Tampa Bay Rays' consultant report released Monday.
"When we got done this would be a B-, B+ type of baseball facility as opposed to, obviously, if we do a brand new ballpark, it would be an A+," said Joe Spears, president of Populous, a design firm hired by the Rays.
Tampa Bay Rays say waterfront stadium is off table, downtown site questionable
ST. PETERSBURG — A ballpark on the waterfront is out, and so may be any location in downtown St. Petersburg.
The Tampa Bay Rays have abandoned thoughts of an open-air stadium at the site of Al Lang Field.
"It's pretty clear people did not want a ballpark down there," Rays senior vice president Michael Kalt said Friday. "From what we're seeing, we're probably in that camp, too.
Plans shelved for Tampa Bay Rays open-air stadium
Tampa Bay Rays executives made it official Friday and announced the team is no longer pursuing plans to build a waterfront, open-air stadium in downtown St. Petersburg.
Given the opposition the Major League Baseball team has met since the plan was unveiled in November 2007, the decision isn’t a surprise.
“This really comes as no surprise,” said Rick Mussett, St. Petersburg’s senior administrator. “There was little support for it.”
Chuck Sykes stumps for Tampa Bay Rays through ABC
Through a subcommittee of A Baseball Community, Tampa Bay Rays executives are meeting business leaders in Tampa.
Chuck Sykes, president and chief executive officer of Sykes Enterprises Inc. (NASDAQ: SYKE), hosted a breakfast in early March for 10 business leaders and three Rays executives. Representing the Rays were president Matt Silverman, vice president and chief sales officer Mark Fernandez and senior vice president of development and business affairs Michael Kalt.