RaYbor City

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

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new stadium coming to Tampa's historic Ybor City area. Currently a bunch of nothing under the highway

[Edgy MD]

Looks like a permanent dome.

[Benjamin Grimm]

But with glass, so that grass can grow? Maybe they've learned a better way to do this than Houston fifty years ago?

[Guest 41Forever]

They're saying a fixed translucent dome -- which seems like a big mistake -- but I don't see a mention of real grass. Looks pretty small.

http://www.tampabay.com/photos/2018/07/10/your-first-look-rays-new-stadium-renderings/

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Would be the smallest ballpark, 28K capacity, may as well be a hockey arena.

Also no one currently knows who will pay for all this so finished product could be different

[Benjamin Grimm]

I wouldn't be surprised if the finished product is in another state.

[Edgy MD]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Would be the smallest ballpark, 28K capacity, may as well be a hockey arena. Also no one currently knows who will pay for all this so finished product could be different

Like the Mets' breakthrough retractable-dome/retractable-field ballpark, possibly at the Navy Yards.

[Lefty Specialist]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Would be the smallest ballpark, 28K capacity, may as well be a hockey arena. Also no one currently knows who will pay for all this so finished product could be different

I know who'll pay for it- the taxpayers of the Tampa-St. Pete region.

[Guest 41Forever]

Edgy MD wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Would be the smallest ballpark, 28K capacity, may as well be a hockey arena. Also no one currently knows who will pay for all this so finished product could be different Like the Mets' breakthrough retractable-dome/retractable-field ballpark, possibly at the Navy Yards.

Whenever I hear someone complain about Citi Field, I think about that design where the playing field slid outside. I notice no one else has gone for that....

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

646 pm on July 10 and the 7 is nearly 100% Flushing commuters