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Video: Rays Ask to Rethink Downtown

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Tampa Bay Rays officials announced plans for a new waterfront stadium in November. They say it can be financed without any new taxes or diverting existing tax dollars by redeveloping the current site of Tropicana Field into a mix-use development. However, the plan must be approved by St. Petersburg taxpayers and has been criticized in the press.