Decades before the Tampa Bay Rays came into the picture, the City of St. Petersburg razed the historically Black Gas Plant District, promising to eliminate blight and bring new homes and light ...

PREVIOUS: Tampa Bay Rays sale looming ... on this agreement so that we can begin to move forward on developing portions of the Historic Gas Plant District. Our initial focus will be on housing, our ...

This puts us in the strongest position to assure that the future development of the Historic Gas Plant District meets the needs of St. Petersburg and honors the promises of equitable development.

Back to square one. When the Rays and development partner Hines were selected to redevelop the Gas Plant District last year, elected officials and baseball fans across Tampa Bay had hoped it would ...

The repair update comes as city council members get ready to take up several key resolutions, including a vote to terminate ...

Sugar Hill competed again for the Historic Gas Plant District project but lost the bid to the Tampa Bay Rays and Hines in January 2023.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — Community activists in St. Petersburg said they want the city to do better to build affordable housing and workforce housing in the Historic Gas Plant District, now ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — St. Pete Mayor Ken Welch says he plans to move forward with redeveloping the Historic Gas Plant District with or without Major League Baseball. “We want to move forward ...

WMNF’s Leah Burdick reports on what Pinellas County says will happen if they don’t receive the money. St. Petersburg City Council terminates Rays stadium deal The deal would have built a new ballpark ...

PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Tampa Bay Rays withdraw from planned $1.3 billion ballpark in St. Petersburg, citing storms, delays The project as a whole would have redeveloped the Historic Gas Plant District ...

by: Jeff Patterson Posted: Mar 17, 2025 / 06:39 PM EDT Updated: Mar 18, 2025 / 06:05 AM EDT ...