St. Petersburg and the Tampa Bay Rays are closing in on a groundbreaking deal: A 20-year redevelopment of the 86-acre Historic Gas Plant District, centered around a long-awaited new baseball stadium. Led by the global Hines Co., the proposed plan could cost billions of dollars and change the landscape of the city in a major way. It won’t be official until the St. Petersburg City Council and .
It’s all hands on deck during major news events. Hurricane Idalia was no different. Nearly every journalist in Florida’s largest newsroom pitched in to help deliver the most comprehensive coverage of the storm. On tampabay.com, a team of Tampa Bay Times reporters and editors produced a “live updates” blog on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with contributions from around the region. It .