Commissioner expects to share ‘exciting’ Rays stadium plans soon

Pinellas County tourism officials recently held an impromptu, off-agenda discussion regarding the ongoing quest to build a new Tampa Bay Rays stadium in downtown St. Petersburg.

Commission Chair Janet Long, who also heads the county’s Tourist Development Council (TDC), sought her colleagues’ feedback regarding a project expected to top $1 billion. The political and business leaders who offered responses generally supported using local tourism taxes to foot about a third of the bill.

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With over 800 people migrating to Florida every day, coupled with the Tampa Bay area's rising notoriety among the best places to work and live, local leaders are grasping at straws trying to accommodate the new residents bolstering the region's economy. 

"These challenges are a result of our success, not our failures. It doesn't mean we don't have to deal with them," former Tampa mayor Bob Buckhorn said. 

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