TALLAHASSEE — Dismissing the value of the land now mostly used for parking, Gov. Ron DeSantis joined the Cabinet on Tuesday in agreeing to include 22 acres at Hillsborough College as part of a future deal for a stadium location for the Tampa Bay Rays.
DeSantis and the Cabinet — Attorney General James Uthmeier, Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia and Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson— approved the inclusion of land at the college for the talks with Rays ownership over the use of about 113 acres of the Dale Mabry Campus for a proposed stadium and accompanying mixed-use development.
“I like baseball. But not everyone is going to just go watch baseball because they love it. You have to draw them with other things,” DeSantis said. “The (National Hockey League’s Tampa Bay) Lightning have done a great job with making it the place to be. That’s why they sell out. And I definitely think there’s potential in Tampa for this.”…