One of the teams that want to redevelop Tropicana Field is crying foul over the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce’s endorsement of a competitive proposal.
The St. Pete chamber endorsed a proposal from the Tampa Bay Rays and global developer Hines in a Jan. 12 op-ed in the Tampa Bay Times. On Tuesday, Sugar Hill Community Partners sent a letter to the chamber leadership, expressing disappointment and surprise at the endorsement.
Sugar Hill finished second to Miami-based Midtown Development under former Mayor Rick Kriseman’s request for proposals to redevelop the 86-acre property. Mayor Ken Welch threw out responses to the Kriseman RFP in the summer of 2022 and restarted the process; Sugar Hill was one of four teams to respond to Welch’s RFP. Read more.
