{"id":370725,"date":"2026-08-13T21:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T21:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370725\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T21:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T21:48:14","slug":"rays-to-announce-a-firm-to-manage-ballpark-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370725\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays to announce a firm to manage ballpark construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Rays next week will select a firm they want to manage the construction of their proposed $2.3 billion stadium project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/sports\/tampa-bay-rays\/tampa-bay-rays-stadium\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SEE ALSO: Previous headlines on Rays stadium search<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The team announced Thursday it will hold a public meeting next Monday and will unveil the names of the firms that submitted a request to take on the project.<\/p>\n<p>The team will then announce its final decision.<\/p>\n<p>When the Rays announced they were opening the search, they said they were looking for a firm that could have the stadium ready to occupy by Dec. 31, 2028, as part of the team&#8217;s timeline to have the ballpark ready for the 2029 season.<\/p>\n<p>The construction manager selected would only be responsible for the stadium \u2014 not the proposed surrounding development.<\/p>\n<p>The selection of a construction manager comes without a final agreement in place.<\/p>\n<p>Talks surrounding the stadium agreement have stalled as the city and Hillsborough County look into the impact the proposed property tax amendment could have on the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Rays next week will select a firm they want to manage the construction of their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[28,276,115,139,29208,275,135,3815,137,136],"class_list":["post-370725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-florida","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-rays-stadium","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370725","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=370725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}