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Tropicana Field redevelopment to be discussed at St. Petersburg summit

Restoration of voting rights and education are also on the agenda.

By Ray Roa on Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 12:36 pm

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Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Hey, guess what? Folks on the south side of St. Petersburg really care about what happens to the Tampa Bay Rays, too.

Redevelopment of the the Trop — where the Rays are now committed to play through 2027 — is on the agenda at a community summit that’ll touch other topics affecting residents within the CRA (think: restoration of voting rights, education).

Community Summit on Life in South St. Peteresburg. Sat., Jan. 12, 2 p.m. Free to attend. Greater Mt. Zion A M E Church, 1045 16th St. S., Saint Petersburg. INFO.

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Ray Roa

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...

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