"I think we all need to be able to look each other in the face and say ‘we did everything we could’."
Officials practically salivate when they think about the development potential of Tropicana Field.
There’s no parcel like it in Tampa Bay. It’s 86 acres of publicly owned land ripe for redevelopment in a booming urban area. They’ve already created a wish list: attract corporate tenants and high-end office space; add entertainment and retail space; construct affordable housing; create more green space and restore Booker Creek; build a new hotel, and maybe even a convention center.
The project even has a name. The proposed Gas Plant District would be a city within a city.
But what it doesn’t have is certainty. Until the Tampa Bay Rays decide whether to remain in St. Petersburg, planners don’t know whether to make room for a baseball stadium.
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