ABC reports on five trade areas, stadium design

People hoping to keep the Tampa Bay Rays in downtown St. Petersburg might not want to see this, but here's Thursday's presentation from the ABC committee on the five trade areas the group is considering for a new stadium.

In pretty much every category, downtown St. Petersburg -- where the Rays now play -- ranks last among the five areas the ABC group is considering.

And here's Thursday's report on design of the new stadium, and our story.

Aaron Sharockman, Times Staff Writer

ABC interim reports on Tropicana options, financing

ST. PETERSBURG -- Renovating Tropicana Field is impractical, selling it now doesn’t make financial sense and paying for a new stadium will be difficult when there’s millions of dollars in debt on the old one.

Those were some of the highlights of a meeting Monday by A Baseball Community, the private group studying stadium options for the Tampa Bay Rays.

Read the actual reports here and here.

Aaron Sharockman, Times Staff Writer