\tCity of St. Petersburg Announces Completion of Tropicana Field Roof Installation<\/p>\n
Nov. 21, 2025 – This week, the City of St. Petersburg completed the installation of the final roof panel on Tropicana Field Stadium ahead of schedule. The Tropicana Field Stadium roof was damaged during Hurricane Milton in October 2024 and the City is obligated to diligently pursue repairs to make the stadium suitable for Tampa Bay Rays home games again. All stadium repairs are currently scheduled to be complete by April 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I want to thank our City team and our contractors for their diligent work in getting the roof installation completed ahead of schedule,” said Mayor Kenneth T. Welch. “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.”<\/p>\n
Following the completion of roof repairs, city contractors will begin focusing on internal repairs. Internal repairs include projects like turf installation, audio visual repairs and replacement, sports lighting, and more. City Council has approved a total of $59,699,513.82 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":"City of St. Petersburg Announces Completion of Tropicana Field Roof Installation Nov. 21, 2025 – This week, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-56043","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\/56043","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=56043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}