{"id":204078,"date":"2026-03-24T15:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204078\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:57:07","slug":"rays-add-two-community-sessions-to-talk-about-plans-for-new-ball-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204078\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays add two community sessions to talk about plans for new ball park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; Tampa Bay Rays fans will have at least two more chances to tell the team what they think about plans for a new stadium in Hillsborough County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Two sessions have been scheduled, March 25 and April 2 as community conversations continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Rays leadership will attend both sessions to provide updates, answer questions, and gather input from the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The proposed project includes a partnership with Hillsborough College to redevelop the Dale Mabry campus as part of a vibrant mixed-use district anchored by a new home for the Tampa Bay Rays. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Rays say the plan is designed to improve campus facilities, expand workforce development, and create curriculum and internship opportunities for more than 45,000 students, reinforcing the site as a key driver of regional growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The project is envisioned as a public\u2013private partnership, with ballpark costs shared between the team, Hillsborough County, and the City of Tampa. The broader, multi-billion-dollar mixed-use development will be 100 percent privately financed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The scheduled sessions are: <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Wednesday, March 25, 6:30-8 p.m. at Press Box Sports, 222 S. Dale Mabry Highway, Tampa, FL 33609<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Thursday, April 2, 6:30-8 p.m. at Robinson High School Auditorium, 6311 S. Lois Ave., Tampa, FL 33616<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Community members can learn more about the project by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/NewBallpark.RaysBaseball.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/NewBallpark.RaysBaseball.com\" target=\"_blank\">NewBallpark.RaysBaseball.com<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Tampa Bay Rays fans will have at least two more chances to tell the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13084,3816,629,23181,7781,135,1526,137,136],"class_list":["post-204078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-ball-park","tag-baseball","tag-hillsborough","tag-rays","tag-stadium","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204078","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=204078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204078\/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=204078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}