{"id":214503,"date":"2026-04-01T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214503\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:24:09","slug":"county-officials-take-another-step-in-rays-stadium-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214503\/","title":{"rendered":"County officials take another step in Rays&#8217; stadium proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 There is a motion regarding the Tampa Bay Rays stadium pursuit on the agenda at Wednesday\u2019s Hillsborough County Commission meeting. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Per the motion, all county staff are being called upon to release any drafts and\/or notes concerning the Rays\u2019 stadium plans at Hillsborough College\u2019s north Dale Mabry Highway campus.<\/p>\n<p>That release has a deadline of 5 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it\u2019s possible more movement toward a stadium in Tampa could happen later this month.<\/p>\n<p>County commissioners, as well as city council members, could take a vote on the\u00a0proposed $2.3 billion Tampa Bay Rays stadium deal in mid-April 2026, with meetings tentatively set for April 15 and 16.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The team is envisioning a mixed-used entertainment district that would include a domed stadium that can seat about 31,000 people. The entire development would stretch about 130 acres across the campus.<\/p>\n<p>The college campus is located across from Raymond James Stadium. Rays officials have said they would like to be in the new facility in time for the 2029 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 There is a motion regarding the Tampa Bay Rays stadium pursuit on the agenda at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[274,558,276,2287,115,29208,275,135,137,136,278],"class_list":["post-214503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-top-stories","tag-business","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-local-politics","tag-news","tag-rays-stadium","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214503","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=214503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}