ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.\u00a0\u2014 The parent company of the Tampa Bay Lightning recently made a bid to manage the Mahaffey Theater.<\/p>\n
The venue is run by the city and will continue to be as city officials rebuffed the proposal from Vinik Sports Group. The facility previously had been managed by Big 3 Entertainment for the past 15 years. It’s contract ended earlier this year.<\/p>\n
VSG confirmed it prepared a proposal to manage the theater after the city rejected the only bid it received, which was from the St. Petersburg Arts Partners.<\/p>\n
The proposal asked for a five-year term and $500,000 in annual funding from the city, which is less than half what the city already pays.<\/p>\n
The proposal also promised to prioritize the Florida Orchestra.<\/p>\n
Vinik said the city told them they were in discussions with the orchestra to have them take over management, but so far no agreement has been reached.<\/p>\n
The city could still issue another request for proposals though that hasn’t been done yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.\u00a0\u2014 The parent company of the Tampa Bay Lightning recently made a bid to manage the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[274,558,2287,115,596,275,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278],"class_list":["post-399387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-top-stories","tag-business","tag-local-politics","tag-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399387","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=399387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}