{"id":165858,"date":"2026-02-23T17:28:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165858\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:28:29","slug":"florida-officials-to-vote-on-land-transfer-for-tampa-bay-rays-ballpark-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165858\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida officials to vote on land transfer for Tampa Bay Rays&#8217; ballpark project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet will vote this week whether to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/19\/desantis-florida-cabinet-weigh-land-transfer-for-rays-proposed-tampa-ballpark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/19\/desantis-florida-cabinet-weigh-land-transfer-for-rays-proposed-tampa-ballpark\/\">transfer 22 acres<\/a>\u201d of the 113-acre Dale Mabry campus at Hillsborough College to the school for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/05\/rays-release-renderings-of-proposed-ballpark-project-in-tampa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/05\/rays-release-renderings-of-proposed-ballpark-project-in-tampa\/\">Rays\u2019 mixed-use development project<\/a>, according to Villamil &amp; Moske of the TAMPA BAY TIMES. They also will consider \u201cchanging the deed restrictions on more than 70 acres of land owned by the college to allow for the Rays stadium and other development.\u201d Preliminary plans call for \u201ccarving the area into three districts\u201d called \u201cChampions Quarter,\u201d which will be home to the 31,000-seat ballpark; \u201cThe Canopy,\u201d a mixed-use development; and \u201cInnovation Edge,\u201d which will be home to Hillsborough College.\u202fThe team has said \u201cit will invest\u201d $8B to $10B into the \u201csurrounding entertainment district and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/02\/rays-plan-to-fund-half-of-new-ballpark-at-hillsborough-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/02\/rays-plan-to-fund-half-of-new-ballpark-at-hillsborough-college\/\">cover\u202fat least half<\/a> of the\u202festimated\u201d $2.3B cost to build a ballpark. For the rest of the money, they are \u201clooking to Hillsborough County and the city\u202fof Tampa.\u201d If any public money goes toward construction of the stadium, \u201cit will be owned by Hillsborough County, which would lease the ballpark to the Rays.\u201d The team hopes to have the ballpark \u201cready by April 2029\u2033 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/sports\/2026\/02\/20\/tampa-bay-rays-stadium-hillsborough-college-desantis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/sports\/2026\/02\/20\/tampa-bay-rays-stadium-hillsborough-college-desantis\/\">TAMPA BAY TIMES, 2\/20<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet will vote this week whether to \u201ctransfer 22 acres\u201d of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3816,3817,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-165858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165858","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=165858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}