{"id":379154,"date":"2026-08-23T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379154\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T17:50:09","slug":"tampa-bay-rays-on-precipice-of-landing-new-ballpark-as-votes-set-for-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/379154\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays on precipice of landing new ballpark as votes set for this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">The Rays are on the verge of landing final approval for their new $2.3B ballpark in Tampa, as the city and Hillsborough County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/08\/21\/tampa-city-council-sets-aug-27-vote-on-rays-ballpark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/08\/21\/tampa-city-council-sets-aug-27-vote-on-rays-ballpark\/\">have votes set for this week<\/a>. The city\u2019s vote has been scheduled for Thursday, and Hillsborough County Commissioner Ken Hagan \u201chas called for a county vote the next day.\u201d Hillsborough County Attorney Julia Mandell noted that there are \u201coutstanding issues which we are continuing to address.\u201d She also noted that the \u201cfinal documents, which will, among other information, include further details on the deal\u2019s community benefits agreement, will be distributed Monday afternoon\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/2026\/08\/21\/tampa-bay-rays-stadium-deal-hillsborough-tampa-votes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TAMPA BAY TIMES, 8\/21<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">The upcoming week \u201cmay be the most consequential in franchise history.\u201d The \u201cmost common excuses for the team\u2019s attendance woes have been the drabness and location of Tropicana Field.\u201d Now, \u201cin one fell swoop, the Rays can solve their problems of geography and aesthetics.\u201d All it will take is\u201d\u202faffirmative votes\u202ffrom the Tampa City Council on Thursday and the Hillsborough County Commission on Friday.\u201d But \u201cany hiccup in the next few days could derail\u201d Tampa Bay\u2019s ballpark hopes. And if \u201canything goes wrong this week, Tampa Bay may not get another do-over\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/viewpoints\/2026\/08\/22\/tampa-bay-rays-stadium-deal-votes-ken-babby-tampa-hillsborough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/viewpoints\/2026\/08\/22\/tampa-bay-rays-stadium-deal-votes-ken-babby-tampa-hillsborough\/\">TAMPA BAY TIMES, 8\/22<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rays are on the verge of landing final approval for their new $2.3B ballpark in Tampa, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3816,3817,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-379154","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\/379154","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=379154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}