Important: Your next opportunity to speak before City Council is May 22. Details.
This Just In: The Council of Neighborhood Associations (CONA), which represents thousands of people from all over the city, has officially come out AGAINST the stadium proposal. Read More. See other groups opposing the plan here.
The city knew about this plan for over a year even during the last elections. Yet the public was kept in the dark until late November (and even then only after the story was leaked to the St. Pete Times). What’s more, the bidding process has proceeded in a way that is only fair to one developer: Hines.
Group claims Rays lobbied illegally, Bay News 9, March 9, 2008
Foes Of Rays' Stadium Plans Say Bidding Is Tainted, Tampa Tribune, March 6, 2008
New Stadium Protest, Tampa Bays 10 News, March 6, 2008
Stadium's critics jump on issue of park zoning, St Pete Times, February 14, 2008
Council Errors Plague Debate On New Stadium, St Pete Times, February 11, 2008
Al Lang Backers: City Duped Us, St Pete Times, February 10, 2008
The Big Story: ‘Project Rebirth,’ the secret two-year courtship of the Rays, St. Pete , Creative Loafing, February 6, 2008
Idea of Al Lang as park pauses, St Pete Times, January 16, 2008
So, let's just SAY the Trop's for sale..., St Pete Times, January 10, 2008
City staff: Don't make Al Lang a park, St Pete Times, December 21, 2007
Pull stadium plans out of the shadows, St Pete Times, November 16, 2008
St. Petersburg City Hall knew about Rays' stadium plans, St Pete Times, November 16, 2007
Rays Stadium Plan Kept Secret For Months, Tampa Tribune, November 15, 2007