ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Crews with the city have completed the installation of the final roof panel on Tropicana Field Stadium, with city leaders saying the work was done ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n
The roof was damaged by Hurricane Milton last October.<\/p>\n
All stadium repairs, including inside, are currently scheduled to be complete by April 2026.<\/p>\n
“This project was a massive undertaking, but we have an outstanding team working on it and making sure we’re prepared for opening day. We look forward to completing the remaining repairs and welcoming fans back for the 2026 season,” said Mayor Ken Welch.<\/p>\n
Internal repairs will include projects like turf installation, audio visual repairs and replacement, sports lighting and more.<\/p>\n
City Council has approved a total of about $60 million for Tropicana Field remediation and repair expenses.<\/p>\n
A timeline of Tropicana Field stadium repairs is below:<\/p>\n
July 2025 – Mobilization for roof replacement
\nAugust 2025 – Roof replacement begins
\nNovember 2025 – Roof replacement complete; interior repairs begin
\nDecember 2025 – Audio system installation begins, backstop netting and outfield wall padding installation, interior repairs continue
\nJanuary 2026 – Turf installation, interior repairs continue
\nMarch 2026 – Substantial completion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Crews with the city have completed the installation of the final roof panel on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1242,274,28,115,139,596,29208,275,110,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,3815,278],"class_list":["post-55764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-florida","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-pinellas-county","tag-rays-stadium","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","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-tampa-bay-rays","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55764","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=55764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}