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Colleen Wright

St. Petersburg mayor: ‘Major announcement’ on Tropicana Field coming Wednesday

Ken Welch Tropicana Field City Council Fla Sugar Hill Tampa Bay Rays

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Mayor Ken Welch gave himself a June 30 deadline to select a developer to redevelop Tropicana Field, one of the largest land deals in the country.

The Welch administration has announced a news conference Wednesday morning, teasing a “major announcement” regarding the Tropicana Field site redevelopment process by the mayor.

The bidding process, which began under former Mayor Rick Kriseman, has come down to two developers: Miami-based Midtown Development and Sugar Hill, a group led by San Francisco developers JMA Ventures.

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