St. Pete<\/a> is a little bummed about the situation, but I think for the Bay area as a whole, I think it gives a new, unique opportunity. If it all goes well, it would just be 10 minutes down the street for us,\u201d Gesacion said.<\/p>\nThe Tampa Sports Authority will take a look at how turning this space into a mixed-use campus district with restaurants, hotels and housing could impact the community and its infrastructure.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was over at the Governor\u2019s thing this morning and heard what they had to say. So I think that we\u2019re smart with our taxpayers\u2019 money to make sure that we\u2019re reviewing the entire scope,\u201d Joseph Robinson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf sports wants to come, I welcome them. Just pay your own way,\u201d Councilmember Charlie Miranda said. \u00a0<\/p>\n
This proposed project will take place in Councilmember Miranda\u2019s district.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you have the money to spend $ 1.7 billion to buy something you should have the money to build your own house,\u201d Miranda said.<\/p>\n
He said funding is already tight.<\/p>\n
“When you ask me to fund something for a 99-year lease, you got to draw a line somewhere,” Miranda said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He believes the funding sources being considered to help pay for this project will impact funding for potential community needs.<\/p>\n
“If you have a husband and wife making $25\/hr will have a hard time buying a house in the City of Tampa and that\u2019s how it is, but I\u2019m going to give away all that money that I just talked about for what,” Miranda said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Councilmember Miranda said all traffic isn\u2019t good traffic.<\/p>\n
“You can\u2019t leave your house. What about the emergency vehicles? What about the jams for other people going to the airport?” Miranda said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He emphasizes he is all for the Rays coming to Tampa, but it should not impact the quality of life.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ve never voted for one of these because it takes the money away from the people who put it in the coffers of the city or the county or the state to do what is right for all the citizens,” Miranda added.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Sports Authority’s discussed economic benefits versus funding challenges on the potential relocation of the Tampa Bay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-142783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142783","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=142783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}