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The Tampa Bay Rays will not meet the upcoming deadline to move forward with a stadium deal, the team announced Thursday afternoon.
The Rays have until March 31 to move forward with the stadium deal, a $1.3 billion facility plus the development of surrounding land in the Historic Gas Plant District.
But the team posted a statement on its social media accounts announcing that “after careful deliberation,” it “cannot move forward with the new ballpark and development project at this moment.”
The team blamed “a series of events beginning in October” for its “difficult decision,” a reference to Hurricane Milton.
– Janelle Irwin, Florida Politics