{"id":375710,"date":"2026-08-19T15:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375710\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T15:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:54:11","slug":"commissioner-dates-on-rays-stadium-votes-may-be-set-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/375710\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner: Dates on Rays stadium votes may be set soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A vote to build a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays could happen as early as next week.<\/p>\n

Hillsborough County Commissioner Ken Hagan<\/a> told WDAE radio this week that meetings to discuss the deal could be scheduled with the city and county in the coming days.<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO: Previous headlines on Rays stadium search<\/a><\/p>\n

Hagan also said that Rays Chief Executive Officer Ken Babby told him the city and team are nearing a point in negotiations where a vote can be scheduled.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the team picked AECOM Hunt to develop the new $2.3-billion stadium<\/a> at the Hillsborough College site.<\/p>\n

That is the same company that helped repair Tropicana Field after Hurricane Milton.<\/p>\n

According to Hagan, a city council vote would come first, followed by the county commission. Meanwhile, financial negotiations between the team, city, and county are ongoing.<\/p>\n

The Rays have committed to spending $1.2 billion on the project and were previously seeking $976 million in public contributions to the project<\/a>, with $796 million from the county and $180 million from the city.<\/p>\n

The team is now working to get a permit to build at Hillsborough College. That request is set for a Hillsborough Planning Commission hearing in November.<\/p>\n

The Rays seek to have the stadium open by the 2029 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A vote to build a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays could happen as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1238,274,558,770,276,2200,2287,115,29208,275,110,135,137,136,278,2032],"class_list":["post-375710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-business","tag-community-news","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-instagram-bn9","tag-local-politics","tag-news","tag-rays-stadium","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-top-stories","tag-trending-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375710","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=375710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}