{"id":529229,"date":"2026-01-20T15:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/529229\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T15:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:43:14","slug":"rays-to-present-new-stadium-plan-to-hillsborough-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/529229\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays to present new stadium plan to Hillsborough College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Tampa Bay Rays new ownership group has prioritized the 108 acre Hillsborough College Dale Mabry campus for a new stadium in Tampa, between Tampa International Airport\u2019s secondary runway and the Buccaneer\u2019s Raymond James Stadium, and has an aggressive goal of opening a new stadium for the 2029 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Today, the Rays take the first step toward making their goals a reality, as the Hillsborough College District Board of Trustees is scheduled to vote on a memorandum of understanding with the team regarding a new stadium that will include a new campus for the college:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">On Tuesday, the board will consider a nonbinding memorandum of understanding with the Rays, which the board can terminate at any time. If it\u2019s approved, the Rays and Hillsborough College will draft a deal to be approved at a later meeting, according to the agenda item.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/sports\/rays\/2026\/01\/15\/rays-stadium-dale-mabry-hillsborough-college\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Given that this non-binding MOU is the first step in what is sure to be a negotiation, these elements are not guaranteed to be in any finding resolution to be signed at a later date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The meeting at which the Rays will make their first pitch is scheduled for 4:00 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Rays new ownership group has prioritized the 108 acre Hillsborough College Dale Mabry campus for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,4,297,2550,68,49846,2551,2549],"class_list":{"0":"post-529229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-rays","11":"tag-tampa-bay","12":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","13":"tag-tampa-bay-stadium-saga","14":"tag-tampabay","15":"tag-tampabayrays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115928197118659421","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}