Tampa Bay's New Baseball Stadium Will Cost Taxpayers at Least $600 Million

Tampa Bay's New Baseball Stadium Will Cost Taxpayers at Least $600 Million

• But will it solve the team's attendance woes? Probably not. - ERIC BOEHM

"...Tampa Bay Times reports that taxpayers in the city of St. Petersburg and those in Pinellas County (which includes the city) will split the $600 million public contribution to the project...this is an exorbitantly expensive price tag—one that is likely to increase as it moves along—for a stadium that will seat only about 30,000 people when finished, making it the smallest in Major League Baseball...