{"id":169324,"date":"2026-02-25T23:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/169324\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:31:22","slug":"tampa-bay-rays-stadium-deal-clears-state-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/169324\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays stadium deal clears state hurdle"},"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; Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet agreed Tuesday to include 22 acres at Hillsborough College in a future stadium deal aimed at keeping the Tampa Bay Rays in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The plan calls for a mixed-use development modeled after the Battery Area in Atlanta, featuring new classrooms alongside shops and restaurants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">State Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia, a member of the Cabinet, said the overall deal would benefit the college and keep baseball in the Tampa Bay region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/02\/05\/rays-unveil-plans-new-stadium-hillsborough-college-campus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/02\/05\/rays-unveil-plans-new-stadium-hillsborough-college-campus\/\">Rays unveil plans for new stadium on Hillsborough College campus<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe should do everything that we possibly can to keep the Rays in the state of Florida,\u201d Ingoglia said. \u201cTampa is as good a part of the state as any. I just want to make sure that we\u2019re watching out for the taxpayers as we do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Rays ownership group is seeking a public-private partnership. Any final deal would also require support from the City of Tampa and Hillsborough County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet agreed Tuesday to include 22 acres at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[80649,80650,80652,80651,135,80648,137,136],"class_list":["post-169324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-florida-cabinet-rays-relocation","tag-hillsborough-college-mixed-use-development","tag-rays-public-private-partnership","tag-ron-desantis-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays-stadium-deal","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169324","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=169324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}