{"id":377669,"date":"2026-08-21T17:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377669\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T17:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:40:08","slug":"tampa-city-council-sets-aug-27-vote-on-rays-ballpark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377669\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa City Council sets Aug. 27 vote on Rays ballpark"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tampa City Council will \u201ccast a definitive vote<\/a> Aug. 27\u2033 on the Rays\u2019 ballpark proposal<\/a>, according to Nicolas Villamil of the TAMPA BAY TIMES. Council member Bill Carlson said that the motion is \u201cdependent on the deal\u2019s definitive documents\u201d being released by 5pm ET Friday. Carlson\u2019s motions come \u201cafter days of speculation that the deal would soon come to a definitive vote.\u201d Final documents have been \u201canticipated for days\u201d (TAMPA BAY TIMES, 8\/20<\/a>).<\/p>\n

SHIFTING FINANCIALS: In Tampa, Nina Moske wrote negotiations on a stadium deal \u201cwould shift some financial risk from the city to the Rays.\u201d Under the current framework, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor said that the city \u201cwould contribute $80 million through a line of credit or an internal loan.\u201d Another $100M \u201ccould come from a loan taken out by the baseball team.\u201d Both would \u201clikely be paid off with property tax revenues generated from the Rays\u2019 proposed mixed-use development.\u201d Those loans would \u201creplace two pots of fraught city money that a previous deal tapped for the stadium: the city\u2019s Community Redevelopment Agency and the Community Investment Tax.\u201d Castor said that the city, county and Rays \u201chave yet to agree on every slice of the deal\u201d (TAMPA BAY TIMES, 8\/20<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa City Council will \u201ccast a definitive vote Aug. 27\u2033 on the Rays\u2019 ballpark proposal, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3816,3817,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-377669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377669","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=377669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}