re: Official: Tampa Bay Rays getting new ballpark in St. Petersburg, RENDERINGS Page 3

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Nashville is indeed a lock

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It’s far from a lock.
1. The city/state would have to choke down the idea of paying for a second stadium. It is costing 2.1 billion to build the Titans new stadium. 500 million coming from the state, 710 million coming from bonds that will eventually be paid back (they pray) in PSL’s, another hotel tax increase and taxes on stadium pro shop and concession sales.

2. There is an existing Triple A park downtown, but other than adding outfield seats and perhaps more seats down the outfield lines, you MIGHT get it to around 20,000 capacity. It’s in an already pretty tight and constructed area and really can’t expand outward. So a new stadium would have to be built. You would be now completely abandoning a park that is less than 10 years old. (First Horizon Park opened in 2015)

3. The newly elected incoming mayor will not play ball (sorry for the pun) with MLB. Just months ago, he voted AGAINST the plan for the Titans Stadium. I’d be shocked if he even let plans off the ground knowing the city/state is leveraged to the hilt right now. He ran on a promise to make the city better for longtime residents, not for billionaires.