{"id":271827,"date":"2026-05-15T04:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/271827\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T04:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:59:09","slug":"tampa-bay-rays-and-local-officials-announce-a-tentative-2-3b-deal-for-a-new-ballpark-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/271827\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays and local officials announce a tentative $2.3B deal for a new ballpark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YTMYGCKHZZEUTDH7BYQRSVFUOY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">MIAMI \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rays and local officials announced a tentative $2.3 billion agreement on Thursday for a new ballpark funded by public and private money.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"KC5TSR6MCVBUTOY47AYRWUNBRI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The nonbinding memorandum of understanding among the Rays, Hillsborough County and the city of Tampa outlines the costs of a stadium, which would include $967 million of tax dollars. Elected officials for the city and county are expected to vote on the deal at separate meetings next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rays and local officials announced a tentative $2.3 billion agreement on Thursday for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116349,3816,116343,477,116344,3823,116347,116346,109373,116348,116345,110,135,137,136,1110],"class_list":["post-271827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-2026-mlb-schedule","tag-baseball","tag-bbo-rays-ballpark","tag-general-news","tag-mlb-2026-news","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mlb-highlights","tag-mlb-latest-news","tag-mlb-news","tag-mlb-schedule-2026","tag-mlb-scores","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271827","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=271827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}