Rays development agreement debate details benefits, concerns

City Councilmember Ed Montanari, channeling former President Ronald Reagan, said his goal for Thursday’s much-anticipated discussion on the historic Gas Plant District’s $6.5 billion redevelopment was to “trust but verify.”

Montanari and his colleagues expressed thoughtful, researched and sometimes pointed concerns regarding a generational project that stakeholders hope will atone for past grievances while fostering a bright future. Former city officials displaced thousands of Black residents and businesses to build Tropicana Field and its sprawling parking lots; the Tampa Bay Rays and Hines development team plans to transform it into a thriving mixed-use community anchored by a new ballpark.

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Arts Alive! podcast: LAB’s ‘Fly Away Home’

Situated on E. Henderson Avenue, where Tampa means Ybor City, LAB Theatre Project is a black box venue where only original works – plays that have not been previously produced – are mounted.

LAB founder and executive producer Owen Roberston returns to the Arts Alive! podcast today, in the company of actress Mandy Keen. They both appear in the LAB production of Fly Away Home, a drama by Gwendolyn Rice and set in 1914.

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