Developer Hines and the Tampa Bay Rays Propose Affordable Housing Development

Developer Hines and the Tampa Bay Rays have submitted a plan for an affordable housing development across the street from the site of the new Tampa Bay Rays Stadium. The community is part of the overall Historic Gas Plant District redevelopment. The 80-unit community will also include 2,500 square feet of retail space along with surface parking. The site, 1659 3rd Avenue South, is currently a parking lot. 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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