By Bill Varian, Times Staff Writer
Monday, December 20, 2010
TAMPA — The governing board that oversees sports arenas in Hillsborough County talked about but then rejected wading into the Tampa Bay Rays stadium debate Monday.
With the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce forming a caucus to study creative financing options for a new stadium, Tampa City Council Chairman Tom Scott posed the question.
Scott serves as a member of the Tampa Sports Authority, which runs Raymond James Stadium and has served as a landlord of sorts of the St. Pete Times Forum and the New York Yankees spring training field. Scott asked: Shouldn't the agency lend its expertise to the discussion?
"If the train is going to leave the station, we need to be on it," he said.
Other board members of the Sports Authority questioned whether that could lead to perceptions that Hillsborough County is trying to steal ...
