{"id":648774,"date":"2026-08-24T22:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/648774\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T22:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:54:19","slug":"vote-expected-on-proposed-rays-stadium-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/648774\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote expected on proposed Rays stadium this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Tampa and Hillsborough County leaders are expected to vote this week on public funding for a proposed new Tampa Bay Rays stadium in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">The plans for the stadium have it slated to be built on Hillsborough College\u2019s Dale Mabry Campus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">Under the latest deal, Hillsborough County would invest nearly $800 million in the project. The city of Tampa would invest an additional $80 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">The city\u2019s share is down from an earlier proposal that asked Tampa to pay $180 million toward the project.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">Tampa City Council is expected to vote on the funding during a meeting on Thursday. The Hillsborough County Commission is expected to vote on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">The Rays CEO released a statement Friday saying, \u201cThe commitment by the Tampa Bay Rays to this lifetime opportunity is absolute, with record private investment and guarantees that will secure Major League Baseball for our region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Today, due to the remarkable determination of many throughout this process, we have definitive documents that will serve as the framework to deliver a new ballpark, a reimagined Hillsborough College campus, and a privately financed neighborhood where we can all work, live,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LkZMosfDqL\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/LkZMosfDqL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RaysBaseball\/status\/2090942362168004810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Tampa and Hillsborough County leaders are expected to vote this week on public funding for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[70798,15479,5,189,40,4,6726,16720,187,540,92,6727,5168,5167,5467],"class_list":["post-648774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-dan-trotter","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-hockey","tag-lightning","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-professional-baseball","tag-rays-stadium","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabaylightning","tag-vod"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117152950766204898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}