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The Rays began the process of hearing from fans about the proposed Hillsborough College ballpark site<\/a> by \u201csending out a survey to current fans who have email addresses on file with the team,\u201d according to Marc Topkin of the TAMPA BAY TIMES. The team has said that their vision for the proposed Hillsborough College ballpark site would \u201c\u2018continue to evolve\u2019 based on a number of factors, including input from area residents.\u201d In addition to the survey, the Rays also \u201cplan to gather input at public meetings,\u201d which are slated to launch \u201cin the next few weeks.\u201d The survey, ran by a third-party firm, CSL, is \u201cdesigned to \u2018inform recommendations\u2019 about features that \u2018could be available\u2019\u201d in the ballpark, and reminds that \u201call concepts presented are hypothetical and for research purposes only.\u201d Most of the questions \u201cdeal with what amenities fans would want in the ballpark, where they would want to sit and why, then based on those answers what prices they would pay for tickets.\u201d There are also questions about \u201cwhat accompanying features would be appealing,\u201d such as \u201cprivate entrances and club space, proximity to concourse amenities and social areas, access to interact with players, social spaces and all-inclusive areas, parking packages, seat type and comfort, ticket flexibility in terms of sharing, and access to tickets for postseason and non-baseball events\u201d (TAMPA BAY TIMES, 2\/8<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rays began the process of hearing from fans about the proposed Hillsborough College ballpark site by \u201csending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,9601,4,297,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":["post-562675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-baseball","tag-fan-experience","tag-mlb","tag-rays","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116041922809133986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562675","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=562675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}