{"id":55853,"date":"2025-11-21T20:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/55853\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T20:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:16:10","slug":"final-roof-panel-installed-at-tropicana-field-as-st-pete-races-toward-2026-reopening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/55853\/","title":{"rendered":"Final roof panel installed at Tropicana Field as St. Pete races toward 2026 reopening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Workers have officially installed the final roof panel at Tropicana Field in downtown St. Pete, marking a major milestone as the City of St. Petersburg prepares to welcome the Tampa Bay Rays back in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The new roof, built with a stronger and more weather resistant fiberglass membrane, is part of a more than $60 million renovation effort to restore the ballpark after 110 mile per hour winds from Hurricane Milton shredded the original roof late last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Although the Rays are only contracted to play at Tropicana Field through the end of the 2028 season, the City is required to provide the team with a suitable stadium for the full term of the agreement, prompting the need for repairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The city is working with <a href=\"https:\/\/hcsfl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hennessy Construction Services<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/aecom.com\/aecom-hunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AECOM Hunt<\/a> as general contractors for the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stpeterising.com\/home\/st-pete-pushes-forward-on-55-million-tropicana-field-repairs-as-roof-installation-begins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Roof installation began in August<\/a> and accounts for more than $23 million of the total renovation cost. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Workers have officially installed the final roof panel at Tropicana Field in downtown St. Pete, marking a major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-55853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","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\/55853","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=55853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}