Rays stadium design firm ‘hit a grand slam’

The selection of a company to complete architectural and engineering services on a new $1.3 billion Tampa Bay Rays ballpark was decidedly anticlimactic.

An evaluation committee comprised of three Rays representatives and four city officials considered two firms for the first step in a monumental project. However, MEIS Architects withdrew its proposal before today's announcement.

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Community backlash surfaces with proposed St. Pete Beach hotels

Dozens of St. Pete Beach residents filled the City Hall chamber Nov. 13, delivering testimony against a massive redevelopment along the shoreline that will bring two new hotels to the already congested Gulf Boulevard corridor. 

Since acquiring the 13-acre Sirata Beach Resort property in a record-breaking $207 million deal last year from Crescent Real Estate, Kentucky-based hotel management company Columbia Sussex has been drafting plans of redeveloping the pool and restaurant of the existing hotel at 5390 Gulf Blvd., which opened in the 1960s. 

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