{"id":378238,"date":"2025-12-30T17:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/378238\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:28:07","slug":"tampa-bay-hoping-to-receive-clarity-on-rays-stadium-plans-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/378238\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay hoping to receive \u2018clarity\u2019 on Rays\u2019 stadium plans in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">Tampa Bay should \u201cfinally\u201d receive clarity \u201caround the Rays\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/08\/rays-beginning-process-to-find-home-for-ballpark-this-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/08\/rays-beginning-process-to-find-home-for-ballpark-this-week\/\">future in the region in 2026<\/a>,&#8221; according to Emma Behrman of the TAMPA BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL. Where that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/11\/13\/st-pete-mayor-open-to-extending-rays-lease-at-tropicana-field\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/11\/13\/st-pete-mayor-open-to-extending-rays-lease-at-tropicana-field\/\">site will be<\/a> and how much public money will be asked for \u201cremain to be seen.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/27\/manfred-praises-new-rays-ownership-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/27\/manfred-praises-new-rays-ownership-group\/\">New Rays ownership<\/a> has said that it \u201cwants a site that can accommodate a 100-acre mixed-use district ready by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/07\/new-rays-owner-eyes-ballpark-in-time-for-2029-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/07\/new-rays-owner-eyes-ballpark-in-time-for-2029-season\/\">opening day in 2029<\/a>.\u201d They have \u201calso been clear that the deal will be a public-private partnership, although they have yet to outline their expectations for public funding.\u201d Construction of a new MLB stadium \u201ctakes years.\u201d It will \u201cbreak ground only after a lengthy public process to secure funding for the project, which means opening day in 2029 isn\u2019t just an aggressive goal &#8212; it\u2019s unlikely to happen.\u201d It is \u201cunclear how many\u201d sites the team is investigating and \u201cwhich side of the bridge they\u2019re on.\u201d Rays Co-Chair Patrick Zalupski said in October that he \u201cenvisions a 100-acre mixed-use district like The Battery,\u201d the home of the Braves. Few properties floated as potential sites \u201care that size.\u201d A source close to ownership has said that potential sites \u201cinclude the Florida State Fairgrounds, Ybor City, the Tampa Dog Track and WestShore Plaza.\u201d St. Petersburg is \u201calso in the running,\u201d though the source said that it \u201cranks lower on the ownership\u2019s preferred list of locations than Tampa\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/tampabay\/news\/2025\/12\/29\/stadium-flops-ownership-flips-rays-enter-2026.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/tampabay\/news\/2025\/12\/29\/stadium-flops-ownership-flips-rays-enter-2026.html\">TAMPA BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL, 12\/29<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay should \u201cfinally\u201d receive clarity \u201caround the Rays\u2019 future in the region in 2026,&#8221; according to Emma&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1558,363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-378238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}