{"id":125679,"date":"2026-01-21T01:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/125679\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:08:07","slug":"hillsborough-college-trustees-approve-memo-for-potential-tampa-bay-rays-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/125679\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillsborough College trustees approve memo for potential Tampa Bay Rays stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SARASOTA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; Trustees for Hillsborough College passed a non-binding memo laying the groundwork for a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays on their campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Rays stadium was destroyed by Hurricane Milton. The proposal would redevelop 113 acres of campus into a new stadium, hotels and housing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2025\/11\/21\/tropicana-field-roof-repairs-expected-finish-before-rays-april-home-opener\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2025\/11\/21\/tropicana-field-roof-repairs-expected-finish-before-rays-april-home-opener\/\">Tropicana Field roof repairs expected to finish before Rays\u2019 April home opener<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hillsborough College will retain some of the property for academic facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Governor Ron DeSantis said he supports the potential partnership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re supportive of them pursuing that partnership because I think it could be good for them,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cI think it could be good for the state, but I definitely think it could be really good for this region, but particularly that part of the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Trustees for Hillsborough College passed a non-binding memo laying the groundwork for a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[22641,1802,412,62292,135,3815,137,136],"class_list":["post-125679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-hillsborough-college","tag-hurricane-milton","tag-ron-desantis","tag-stadium-redevelopment","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}