"Just Getting Started" with Dr. Kanika Tomalin: Just Getting Started: What will happen to the Tropicana Field site?

As City Development Administrator Alan DeLisle is in charge of economic development, transportation, planning, real estate, events, Enterprise Facilities (including the Tropicana Field site) and more. The discussion centers on the all-important 86 contiguous acres where Tropicana Field now sits, and what will be done with it - if the Tampa Bay Rays leave when their contract expires in 2027, or if the team stays and the area is transformed into mixed-use. "It's exactly on the cusp of where all the development is creeping west," Dr. Tomalin says. "People literally salivate at this opportunity that we have to transform our community." The City recently sent out Requests For Proposals (RFPs). "We really need the talent and experience and wherewithall of a master private developer," explains DeLisle. "We're looking at some combinations of folks that are going to come together here, in my humble opinion, that probably far exceeds anything like it in the past." #stpetecatalyst #stpete #florida #tampabay #radio