{"id":383375,"date":"2026-08-28T08:46:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T08:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383375\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T08:46:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T08:46:38","slug":"tampa-city-council-approves-80-million-for-new-rays-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383375\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa City Council approves $80 million for new Rays stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; The Tampa City Council, in a marathon session Thursday, approved $80 million for a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The vote was 4 to 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/08\/24\/gov-desantis-hold-tampa-news-conference-monday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/08\/24\/gov-desantis-hold-tampa-news-conference-monday\/\">DeSantis discusses Rays stadium site<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is the first of two votes the Rays need for their new stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Hillsborough County Commission will vote on its portion of the stadium funding Friday morning in a special meeting at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In the deal, the city\u2019s public money contribution will drop from more than $100 million to $80 million, paid with a new tax district for the stadium instead of the local half-cent sales tax that many opposed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The county will put in $796 million from different sources, up from the $750 million first agreed on back in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The MLB will also loan the Rays $150 million, while the team itself will spend more than $1 billion to build the new stadium and a residential commercial district next door.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; The Tampa City Council, in a marathon session Thursday, approved $80 million for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[153725,153724,135,79497,80648,153723,137,136],"class_list":["post-383375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-hillsborough-county-commission-vote","tag-rays-new-ballpark-funding","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays-stadium","tag-tampa-bay-rays-stadium-deal","tag-tampa-city-council-vote","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383375","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=383375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}