$2.3bn ballpark project<\/a> in Hillsborough County.<\/p>\nTampa Sports Authority board member Tony Muniz has asked Hillsborough County Commission to look \u201cvery hard\u201d at which team should be prioritised.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think most of us have talked to the Buccaneers at this point, and we\u2019re going to be writing a very large check in the very near future for Raymond James Stadium,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that\u2019s our priority. We have to always remember that. I think that we need to take care of Raymond James before we go out and try to convince the Rays to stay in Tampa Bay.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tampa Sports Authority president Eric Hart said he expected the Bucs to request somewhere between $700m and $1.3bn in renovations for Raymond James Stadium.<\/p>\n
The venue opened in 1998 and has a capacity of around 69,000. It has hosted the Super Bowl three times, most recently in 2021, and is also a major concert venue.<\/p>\n
Tampa Sports Authority has already budgeted $58m for projects at Raymond James Stadium.<\/p>\n
Hart said that while some of the renovations are for maintenance, the Sports Authority and the team share a common goal to do upgrades that would generate revenue.<\/p>\n
The Rays are also seeking a large contribution from the public, requesting around $1bn from the taxpayer with the team\u2019s current lease to play at Tropicana Field also expiring in 2028.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in Florida, the NFL\u2019s Jacksonville Jaguars are planning a major redevelopment of EverBank Stadium that is expected to cost $1.4bn.<\/p>\n
The Jaguars will spend the 2027 NFL season at Camping World Stadium<\/a> in Orlando while work is carried out at EverBank Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL team is seeking a $1bn (\u00a3740m\/\u20ac858m) renovation to its Raymond James Stadium. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8730,8739,11708,135,1526,2964,137,136],"class_list":["post-287286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-buccaneers","tag-bucs","tag-raymond-james-stadium","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287286","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=287286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}