Nashville, home for Tampa Bay Rays? Tampa official says club thinking about it
Tampa City Council member Charlie Miranda says Tampa Bay Rays officials mentioned Nashville as a possible destination if things donât work out in Tampa Bay.
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Association steward and Tampa icon Charlie Miranda keeps a close eye on a horse race during a recent day at the races on Jan. 8, 2020, at Tampa Bay Downs in Tampa. On Friday, the longtime council member told the Tampa Bay TImes that Rays officials had brought up possible relocation to Nashville, Tenn. [ DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | TImes ]
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TAMPA â Tampa City Council member Charlie Miranda said Friday that Tampa Bay Rays president Brian Auld told him this week that relocating to Nashville might be in the cards.
Hillsborough Republicans take aim at county s Democratic commission majority
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The show will go on at New Tampa Performing Arts Center
Hillsborough Commission approves $7.3 million construction on a long-planned 350-seat theater.
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A conceptual drawing, by FleischmaGarcia Architecture, of the proposed New Tampa Performing Arts Center on Bruce B. Downs Boulevard across from the main entrance to Hunter s Green. Wednesday, Hillsborough commissioners voted 5-2, for a $7.3 million construction contract to build the center. [ Hillsborough County ]
TAMPA â The show must go on, a Hillsborough Commission majority decided Wednesday.
In a 5-2 vote, the commission awarded a $7.3 million construction contract for a 20,000-square-foot performing arts center in New Tampa, a project first proposed in 2004.
Hillsborough considers premier of New Tampa Performing Arts Center
Seventeen years later, commissioners are still questioning the financing of a planned 350-seat theater.
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A conceptual drawing, by FleischmanGarcia Architecture, of the proposed New Tampa Performing Arts Center on Bruce B. Downs Boulevard across from the main entrance to Hunter s Green. [ Hillsborough County ]
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NEW TAMPA â Hillsborough Commissioner Ken Hagan said he thought it would be a unanimous vote â a slam dunk.
He told fellow commissioners about a proposal to use county-owned land for a performing arts center in New Tampa. But Haganâs counterparts wondered about a financial commitment from the city of Tampa, since the site was inside the city limits, and the possibility of perpetual government subsidies.