{"id":145363,"date":"2026-02-05T23:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145363\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T23:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:11:16","slug":"tampa-bay-rays-unveil-stadium-designs-and-plans-to-woo-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145363\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays unveil stadium designs and plans to woo public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h903058-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">The Tampa Bay Rays have released the first images of the ballpark the team is hoping to build on the site of Hillsborough College.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h903058-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">The renderings show a domed stadium amid a massive mixed-use development on the 113-acre property across from Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark will, if approved, sit on the site of today's Hillsborough College.\" class=\"media-element file-default fr-fic fr-dii\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BallparkExterior_Rendering_FINAL_t850.png\" title=\"The new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark will, if approved, sit on the site of today's Hillsborough College.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark will, if approved, sit on the site of today&#8217;s Hillsborough College.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy image<\/p>\n<p id=\"h903058-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">Along with unveiling its vision, the team also announced it would soon begin a series of community engagement sessions across Hillsborough County. Those ostensibly will be held to help convince residents that at least some public money will be needed to build the stadium.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h903058-p7\" class=\"permalinkable\">The team, in a statement says, it sees the stadium as a public\u2013private partnership with costs shared between the team, the county, and the City of Tampa.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A street level view of what an imagined new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark and adjoining mixed-use development would look like on the site of Hillsborough College.\" class=\"media-element file-default fr-fic fr-dii\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/StreetLevel_Rendering_FINAL_t850.png\" title=\"A street level view of what an imagined new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark and adjoining mixed-use development would look like on the site of Hillsborough College.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A street level view of what an imagined new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark and adjoining mixed-use development would look like on the site of Hillsborough College.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy image<\/p>\n<p id=\"h903058-p8\" class=\"permalinkable\">No definitive numbers have been released yet with county, city and team officials beginning early conversations this week.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h903058-p9\" class=\"permalinkable\">Another way for the community to participate is through a $19.98 deposit to secure early access to seating when the stadium is finished.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The imagined pregame festivities at the new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark on the site of Hillsborough College.\" class=\"media-element file-default fr-fic fr-dii\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PreGame_Rendering_FINAL_t850.png\" title=\"The imagined pregame festivities at the new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark on the site of Hillsborough College.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The imagined pregame festivities at the new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark on the site of Hillsborough College.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy image<\/p>\n<p id=\"h903058-p10\" class=\"permalinkable\">The Rays are in active talks with Hillsborough College officials about a proposal that will transform the campus. That plan keeps the college on the property, though on a smaller footprint, allowing Rays to build a stadium and a mixed-use development on the property that would include multifamily, retail and hotel space.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h903058-p11\" class=\"permalinkable\">The mixed-use development will be 100% privately financed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Rays have released the first images of the ballpark the team is hoping to build&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-145363","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\/145363","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=145363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}