The Rays rolled out their latest stadium plan on Friday late afternoon, meeting the final and extended deadline set by St. Petersburg’s Mayor for proposals to redevelop the 86-acre plot that takes up a vast amount of downtown St. Petersburg.
Usually moments of new stadium renderings are opportunities for celebration, a red carpet with VIP’s and the media in tow.
This time, however, there has been little fanfare. Perhaps it’s best that the Rays keep this quiet. They had a VIP rollout celebration of the Ybor City stadium, and that plan fizzled. They had the big reveal at the Dali Museum that the team wanted to leave the region for half the year, and that plan was vetoed.