The city council voted 7-1 Thursday to begin the process of rezoning Progress Energy Park as downtown parkland, but said the move would not prevent the Tampa Bay Rays from building a new ballpark on the waterfront site. ...more

July 11, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - The city council voted 7-1 today to begin the process of rezoning Progress Energy Park as downtown parkland, but said the move would not prevent the Tampa Bay Rays from possibly building a new ballpark on the waterfront site. ...more

July 10, 2008

The Tampa Bay Rays will abandon ambitious plans to build a $450 million baseball stadium on the downtown waterfront in four years and instead get more people involved in assessing other locations, the team announced Wednesday. ...more

June 26, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG — The Tampa Bay Rays announced this afternoon that they will abandon their ambitious plans to build a $450 million stadium on the downtown waterfront by 2012. Rays President Matt Silverman said at a news conference the team will no longer seek a November referendum on the new ballpark the team proposed seven months ago for the site of Progress Energy Park, home of Al Lang Field. ...more

June 25, 2008