City of St. Petersburg and Tampa Bay Rays Send Out RFQ for Construction Managers

The City of St. Petersburg, and Tampa Bay Rays have published a request for qualifications from firms to serve as construction managers for the new Rays stadium that is proposed as a component of the Historic Gas Plant Development in St. Petersburg. According to the RFQ, the Rays would like the ballpark to be constructed by January 2, 2028. The Historic Gas Plant District redevelopment, in addition to the new state-of-the-art ballpark for the Tampa Bay Rays major league baseball team, will include a transformational development by the Hines Historic Gas Plant Partnership on the 86-acre site where the team’s current stadium sits. The project for St. Petersburg, Pinellas County and the Tampa Bay region will include nearly 8 million square feet of mixed-use development 4,800 residential units, 1,200 affordable/workforce residential units (on and off-site), 600 senior living units, 1,400,000 square feet of office, medical and commercial space, 750,000 square feet of retail, 750 hotel rooms, 100,000 square feet of entertainment space, including a concert venue to seat up to 4,000, 50,000 square feet of civic space, namely a new home for the Carter G. Woodson African American Museum, 90,000 - 100,000 square feet of conference, ballroom and meeting space, 14 acres of public open space, 14,000 parking spaces.

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