Lyash dishes out coalition details
The coalition tasked to find a viable location for a new Tampa Bay Rays baseball stadium will include nine members from the Tampa Bay area and will likely conclude its work within 18 months, coalition chairman and Progress Energy CEO Jeff Lyash said at a morning press conference announcing details of the groups' plans.
What's next for the Rays' stadium plans?
A community baseball coalition will study where to build and how to pay for a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays. How that coalition will be assembled is the subject of a Monday morning news conference.
Rays president optimistic about baseball in bay area
ST. PETERSBURG — In the middle of their best-ever season, the Tampa Bay Rays suffered possibly the franchise's most agonizing defeat.
Abandoning plans for a $450-million waterfront ballpark ends seven months of often acrimonious public discussions over the future of St. Petersburg's downtown.
Rays ready to listen; keeping team is key
The decision to abandon the November referendum on a new waterfront stadium sends two encouraging signals about Tampa Bay Rays principal owner Stuart Sternberg: 1) He is willing to listen; 2) He's not spoiling for a fight.
The move was politically inevitable, perhaps. The Rays were running into mounting roadblocks: a Tourist Development Council that covets its resort tax; a County Commission caught in an election cycle; a City Council pushed by the calendar and hectored by antistadium yard signs; a fuzzy development plan for the existing Tropicana Field site; a financing plan that still contained unfilled gaps; and an economy that unsettles all of the above.
Community coalition formed to secure baseball's future for St. Petersburg and Pinellas County
Rays forego November referendum, announce support for expanded effort