{"id":402508,"date":"2026-09-17T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402508\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T13:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:42:10","slug":"tampa-sports-authority-approved-to-review-rays-ballpark-design-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402508\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Sports Authority approved to review Rays ballpark design plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hillsborough County commissioners on Wednesday \u201ctook another step forward\u201d for the proposed Rays ballpark<\/a> as they \u201capproved the Tampa Sports Authority as the city and county representative to review design and construction documents for the ballpark.\u201d The Sports Authority would also \u201chave to answer any questions from city or county officials about the project.\u201d The Sports Authority hired construction firm Skanska, the same firm it\u202fused to vet the ballpark\u2019s\u202f$2.3B cost projection, to review the documents. That is \u201cexpected to cost about $300,000, which the county would pay under terms of the vote.\u201d Commissioners Joshua Wostal and Donna Cameron Cepeda, both of whom opposed public financing of the ballpark last month, also voted \u201cagainst using the Sports Authority to review design and construction plans.\u201d Wostal \u201craised concerns\u201d on spending money before other legal documents have been approved in the Rays deal. County Attorney Julia Mandell\u202fsaid that the money \u201cis included in the project\u2019s budget.\u201d She recommended that\u202fcommissioners \u201capprove the agreement so the county is included in the design process of the ballpark.\u201d Leading up to the county and city\u2019s approval of a funding agreement with the Rays,\u202flocal officials acknowledged\u202fthat \u201cthere are still agreements that need to be negotiated for the project to move forward.\u201d That includes a community benefits agreement (TAMPA BAY TIMES, 9\/16<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hillsborough County commissioners on Wednesday \u201ctook another step forward\u201d for the proposed Rays ballpark as they \u201capproved the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3816,3817,23181,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-402508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-rays","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402508","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=402508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}