{"id":43916,"date":"2025-11-12T17:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43916\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:01:07","slug":"tropicana-field-repairs-expected-well-ahead-of-tampa-bay-rays-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43916\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropicana Field repairs expected ‘well ahead’ of Tampa Bay Rays’ home opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

A St. Petersburg official expects repairs to Tropicana Field<\/a> to be \u201cdone by the end of February, well ahead\u201d of the Rays\u2019 home opener next season on April 6, according to Colleen Wright of the TAMPA BAY TIMES. Twenty out of 24 roof panels \u201chave been installed,\u201d with the rest of the panels \u201cslated to go up by next week.\u201d Inside, construction work \u201cis underway.\u201d St. Petersburg Development Administration Managing Dir Beth Herendeen said that City Council has approved $59.7M for repairs to the ballpark after damage done last year by Hurricane Milton<\/a> and \u201cisn\u2019t expected to vote on any more repair-related expenses.\u201d Wright noted initial estimates put the \u201ctotal cost at\u201d $56M. Herendeen said that the Rays are \u201cpaying for any upgrades in addition to the standard repairs the city is doing.” She added that the Rays have \u201cnot shared with the city how much the team plans to spend on upgrades.\u201d Wright noted there was \u201cdebate over whether the city would pay for renovating the Rays\u2019 corporate offices inside the Trop.\u201d But Herendeen said that the Rays \u201care paying to renovate the office space.\u201d Wright noted seats in the ballpark are \u201cbeing touched up or replaced, the scoreboard is being repaired and flooring and concession areas are getting redone.\u201d Herendeen said that before the Rays move back in, a \u201cfull air-quality test will be done throughout the stadium\u201d (TAMPA BAY TIMES, 11\/11<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A St. Petersburg official expects repairs to Tropicana Field to be \u201cdone by the end of February, well…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3816,3817,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-43916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43916","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=43916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}