{"id":681170,"date":"2026-04-22T16:46:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/681170\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:46:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:46:53","slug":"tampa-bay-rays-new-ballpark-plan-cuts-parking-spots-for-buccaneers-raymond-james-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/681170\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays\u2019 new ballpark plan cuts parking spots for Buccaneers, Raymond James Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">The Rays\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/05\/rays-release-renderings-of-proposed-ballpark-project-in-tampa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/05\/rays-release-renderings-of-proposed-ballpark-project-in-tampa\/\">proposed $2.3B ballpark at Hillsborough College<\/a>, which would be located across the street from Raymond James Stadium, would leave the Buccaneers with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/26\/parking-plan-stalls-rays-hillsborough-college-ballpark-talks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/26\/parking-plan-stalls-rays-hillsborough-college-ballpark-talks\/\">at least 2,600 fewer parking spaces<\/a> for games,\u201d according to a front-page piece by Colleen Wright of the TAMPA BAY TIMES. The Rays\u2019 initial plans would \u201ctake those spaces offline as soon as July, when construction begins.\u201d Tampa Sports Authority President &amp; CEO Eric Hart said that the Sports Authority will \u201chave to work with Tampa International Airport to find more parking spaces,\u201d which \u201cmay be a problem during rainstorms, or may have to build a parking garage.\u201d If not, Tampa and Hillsborough County would have to \u201cpay fines to the Bucs,\u201d according to an agreement \u201crequiring that they be provided a minimum number of parking spaces.\u201d Hart said that the changes in parking spaces \u201cwill affect revenue, especially for the Bucs,\u201d whose expenses \u201cwill go up\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/tampa\/2026\/04\/21\/rays-stadium-construction-plan-leaves-bucs-2600-parking-spots-short\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/tampa\/2026\/04\/21\/rays-stadium-construction-plan-leaves-bucs-2600-parking-spots-short\/\">TAMPA BAY TIMES, 4\/21<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rays\u2019 proposed $2.3B ballpark at Hillsborough College, which would be located across the street from Raymond James&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,2044,4,1082,297,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":{"0":"post-681170","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-football","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-rays","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabayrays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116449378465180897","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681170","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=681170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681170\/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=681170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}