Today, Rays leadership addressed the media as they acknowledged the end (for now) of their Ybor City stadium plans. (Read more on that here)
Rays’ owner Stuart Sternberg and team President Brian Auld addressed reporters on site at the Winter Meetings in Las Vegas, and shortly thereafter Auld and fellow team President Matt Silverman addressed local Tampa Bay media via conference call.
The upshot: the Ybor deal was always going to be complex; putting together multiple public and private financing sources while addressing issues of site control and infrastructure proved to be more than could be accomplished in three years.