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By
Stephen Nohlgren, Times Staff Writer
In print: Wednesday, July 2, 2008
The Jabil Circuit land, left, and La Entrada property, right, at the northwest corner of the Gandy Boulevard exit from Interstate 275 form one of the sites in the Gateway area of Pinellas County that could house a stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays.
Disadvantages: Possible height restrictions. Probably would have to make lease payment toward airport operations. Traffic access problematic.
B.Carillon
Size: 60-80 acres of vacant land
Advantages: Central location with proven traffic patterns. Thousands of office parking spaces already in place.
Disadvantages: Costly land without any indication that owners and current occupants have any desire for stadium. Fragmented acreage.
C.Toytown
Size: 240 to 300 acres
Advantages: Possible free land. Current development plan envisions mixed-use town center development the Rays would like. Lots of office buildings for parking synergies. Seventy acres already designated for public recreation.
Disadvantages: Uncertainties over what, if anything, can be built on site. Complex permitting that could lead to costly delays. Uncertain traffic access.
D.County landfill expansion site
Size: 200 acres
Advantages: Big chunk of public land.
Disadvantages: In 15 to 20 years, will be dumping ground for ash from county incinerator. Without it, county might have to truck ash more than 100 miles to other landfill. Uncertain traffic access. Right next to the incinerator.
E & F.La Entrada/Jabil
Size: About 100 acres each for 200 acres combined.
Advantages: La Entrada already permitted and zoned for mixed-use development. Infrastructure already under way. Since properties abut, office parking and retail amenities on one could help support the other.
Disadvantages: Land cost. Limited traffic access at present. Uncertainty whether either land owner is interested in selling or participating in stadium project.
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Comments on this article
by Mike
Jul 5, 2008 10:40 PM
Rip the roof off the Trop and replace it with a retractable roof and then remodel some of the outfield for more corpoate box money. Parking at Trop is much better. Give some tax incentives for businesses that relocate around Trop area with $ saved
by tim
Jul 4, 2008 11:44 AM
Disadvantages: The taxpayers will spend 30 years giving $450+ million to a small group of multi-millionaires.
by parker
Jul 3, 2008 1:58 PM
we have a perfectly good stadium, east acess both coming and going, Not sure what the problem is...didnt they move to trop from progress energy park becaue they wanted an air conditionded stadium as well as a dry one during the rain??
by David
Jul 2, 2008 6:16 PM
This would be a great location, but this would not stop the Tampa whiners who want it all or nothing! Lets face it, they will never be happy until the team is over the bridge.
by darryl
Jul 2, 2008 4:43 PM
why would the rays want it there?everyone is comeing up with these sites that look like the one they are at.they want a water front site.find them a place with water.better yet now that there is time lets figure out the AL-Lang situation.
by Todd
Jul 2, 2008 4:43 PM
Duhhh! Any of these make the stadium more accessible to more people. Locating it at the very bottom of a peninsula was/is STUPID! "Hey, lets put it somewhere that is geographically isolated and hard for a huge portion of the Tampa Bay area to get to"
by Ray
Jul 2, 2008 1:31 PM
Build it on the USF ST PETE Campus site. The school is going to close soon anyway.....
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