The city council Thursday approved Mayor Rick Baker's recommendation to select an Arlington, Va.-based company for the potential redevelopment of Tropicana Field. ...more

June 20, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - The city council today approved Mayor Rick Baker's recommendation to select an Arlington, Va.-based company for the potential redevelopment of Tropicana Field. ...more

June 19, 2008

Mayor Rick Baker is recommending a Virginia-based developer to transform Tropicana Field and its parking lots into a massive mixed-use community of shops, restaurants, offices, hotels and residences. ...more

June 14, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG -- Mayor Rick Baker is recommending a Virginia-based developer to transform Tropicana Field and its parking lots into a massive mixed-use community of shops, restaurants, offices, hotels and residences. In a memo today to the city council, Baker said he concurs with the recommendation of his staff to select Archstone-Madison over the Tampa Bay Rays' preferred developer, Houston-based Hines Interests. ...more

June 13, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG -- The city administration is proposing that the City Council begin the process for scheduling a November referendum on the Tampa Bay Rays' proposed downtown ballpark. In a four-page memo released today, city staff members suggest that the council on Thursday initiate the referendum process so it can retain the option of allowing voters to decide on the Rays' proposed 34,000-seat stadium at the site of Progress Energy Park, home of Al Lang Field. ...more

May 30, 2008

Armed with maps, charts and markers, the 331 people seated at tables set up in right field talked about what to do with Tropicana Field if it's torn down. ...more

January 10, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - More than 300 people, ranging from heads of corporations to politicians to ordinary residents, will gather tonight to discuss a proposal to redevelop Tropicana Field, the home of the Tampa Bay Rays since 1998. ...more

January 9, 2008