{"id":849611,"date":"2026-04-02T16:47:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/849611\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:47:21","slug":"tampa-bay-buccaneers-proposed-raymond-james-stadium-renovations-projected-to-cost-1b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/849611\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Buccaneers\u2019 proposed Raymond James Stadium renovations projected to cost $1B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">The Buccaneers \u201cplan to meet with the Tampa Sports Authority next week\u201d to discuss a \u201csweeping renovation\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/12\/bucs-eye-raymond-james-stadium-renovations-as-lease-deadline-nears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/02\/12\/bucs-eye-raymond-james-stadium-renovations-as-lease-deadline-nears\/\">of Raymond James Stadium<\/a>, a project that is expected to carry a price tag \u201capproaching\u201d $1B, according to Stroud &amp; Wright of the TAMPA BAY TIMES. The Bucs have \u201ctalked openly\u201d about the fact that their 28-year-old NFL stadium \u201cwill need major renovations soon.\u201d To this point, those discussions have \u201cremained internal.\u201d But with the Rays <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/04\/01\/tampa-council-chair-says-rays-ballpark-financing-terms-remain-unsettled-amid-growing-calls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/04\/01\/tampa-council-chair-says-rays-ballpark-financing-terms-remain-unsettled-amid-growing-calls\/\">trying to find public and private financing<\/a> for at least half of <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\/\">a proposed $2.3B ballpark<\/a>, the Bucs believe that \u201cthe time has come to make the TSA aware of their needs to remain\u201d at Raymond James Stadium. The Glazer family, which owns the Bucs, has said that they \u201cneed renovations to also help attract major events such as a Super Bowl and college football national championship game.\u201d The Bucs have 10 months (on or before Jan. 31, 2027) to extend their lease for five more years. More than $160M was invested in stadium renovations between 2016-18, \u201cmost by the Glazer family.\u201d The Bucs would have to \u201csecure an alternate site to play their home games whenever the renovation commences.\u201d It is \u201clikely\u201d that Camping World Stadium would be the \u201cpreferred site\u201d for the team as well. The Bucs also \u201cwant to create a mixed-use development\u201d near Raymond James Stadium (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/sports\/bucs\/2026\/04\/01\/raymond-james-stadium-renovation-tampa-sports-authority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/sports\/bucs\/2026\/04\/01\/raymond-james-stadium-renovation-tampa-sports-authority\/\">TAMPA BAY TIMES, 4\/1<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buccaneers \u201cplan to meet with the Tampa Sports Authority next week\u201d to discuss a \u201csweeping renovation\u201d of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,7,6,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-849611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-buccaneers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-tampa-bay","12":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","13":"tag-tampabay","14":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116336135131503750","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}