{"id":207503,"date":"2026-03-26T22:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/207503\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T22:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:05:08","slug":"tampa-bay-rays-file-construction-permits-for-new-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/207503\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays file construction permits for new stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rays organization has filed its first application to build a new ballpark on the campus of Hillsborough College.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>The Rays are applying for an environmental resource permit from Southwest Florida Water Management District.<br \/>\n<br \/>Meanwhile, the Tampa Sports Authority is considering spending $30,000 to get a second opinion on the cost of the roof the team proposed for the new stadium, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/tampabay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Business Journal<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/sports\/tampa-bay-rays\/tampa-bay-rays-stadium\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Latest Tampa Bay Rays stadium updates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The team is applying for an environmental resource permit from Southwest Florida Water Management District.<\/p>\n<p>The application was filed before cost analysis studies have been completed, though the cost of a new stadium is projected at $2.3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays have yet to secure funding for a new stadium but have said they would pay at least half. The team wants the rest to come from public funding sources.<\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough County and the city of Tampa could vote on a stadium deal next month.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Tampa Sports Authority is considering spending $30,000 to get a second opinion on the cost of the roof the team proposed for the new stadium, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/tampabay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tampa Bay Business Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The roof was originally projected to cost around $60 million.<\/p>\n<p>The construction firm Skanska says it&#8217;s actually closer to about $360 million.<\/p>\n<p>The sports authority says Skanska&#8217;s first study could be out of date because the design and materials have changed and they weren&#8217;t aware of it until a meeting earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The committee will vote Tuesday on whether to have Skanska conduct a second study on the roof of the Rays proposed stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rays organization has filed its first application to build a new ballpark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1242,274,28,115,139,29208,275,110,135,3815,137,136,278],"class_list":["post-207503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-florida","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-rays-stadium","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207503","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=207503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}