{"id":5350,"date":"2025-10-15T20:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5350\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T20:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:04:07","slug":"hillsborough-county-board-backs-18m-renovations-to-steinbrenner-field-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5350\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillsborough County board backs $18M renovations to Steinbrenner Field in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Steinbrenner Field, Tampa Bay Rays\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/REF6NS4HABAFDEKKEG4WAQRDII.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Steinbrenner Field, the spring training home of the Yankees, served this year as a temporary home for the Rays during the 2025 regular season. Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">The Hillsborough County (Fla.) Board of Commissioners today in a 6-1 vote approved almost $18M for \u201crenovations to Steinbrenner Field.\u201d The spring training home of the Yankees served this year as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/03\/30\/rays-begin-temporary-stay-at-steinbrenner-field\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/03\/30\/rays-begin-temporary-stay-at-steinbrenner-field\/\">temporary home<\/a> for the Rays during the 2025 regular season after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/10\/10\/tropicana-field-roof-damaged-hurricane-milton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/10\/10\/tropicana-field-roof-damaged-hurricane-milton\/\">Tropicana Field was damaged by Hurricane Milton last October<\/a>. The money will come from \u201cbed tax funds such as hotel money.\u201d No general fund taxpayer dollars will be used (<a href=\"https:\/\/baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/news\/2025\/10\/15\/hillsborough-county-leaders-ok--18-million-for-steinbrenner-field-renovations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BAYNEWS9.com, 10\/15<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steinbrenner Field, the spring training home of the Yankees, served this year as a temporary home for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3816,3817,893,135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-5350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sustainability","11":"tag-tampa","12":"tag-tampa-headlines","13":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350","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=5350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}