Not long after the Rays submitted their proposal to St. Pete, there were reports that the team was also looking at a Tampa site along the Ybor Channel, bring back the long desired hope among Rays fans for a water front stadium in a downtown area.
This location on the downtown Tampa waterfront had been an active shipyard, which we wrote about as a potential site back in 2016. To refresh your memory, we had thought it was unlikely that the shipyard would relocate, and we noted some other drawbacks to the site, namely its configuration and its isolation from both Channelside and Ybor.