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Rays Set To Unveil Ballpark Design, Still Figuring Out How To Pay For It

Hillsborough County (Fla.) leaders face an "uphill task to figure out how to pay" for a new Rays ballpark, estimated around $800M, no matter how "innovative and appealing" the design is, according to Christopher O'Donnell of the TAMPA BAY TIMES. The Rays on Tuesday plan to "unveil drawings of a new ballpark and in the process provide some long-awaited answers about the team’s push for a new home." O'Donnell: "Will it be a retractable or translucent domed roof? How many seats? Where will home plate be?" The unveiling comes five months after Rays Owner Stuart Sternberg announced that the team had "picked a 14-acre site in Ybor City as its preferred new home." The Rays have yet to "officially disclose how much they would be willing to pay." Both Hillborough Commissioner Ken Hagan and Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn have said that raising taxes is "not an option, although money set aside for community improvement projects could be used for utility lines and road realignment to support a ballpark." Profits from surrounding development may also be "part of the financing plan." Hagan said that makes it even "more vital to get corporate support -- a pitch that will be easier to make now that the ballpark is more than an abstract concept." A full upper deck is "unlikely since it’s expensive and so hard to fill" at Tropicana Field that it is "usually covered with a blue tarp" (TAMPA BAY TIMES, 7/6).

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