This is the fifth in a series of weekly community zoom meetings trying to explain the proposed St. Petersburg deal with the Rays-Hines team. Kari Mueller gives a quick review of the first four of these community informational sessions. 

 

Then Peter Kent expands on his June 9 Tampa Bay Times column explaining why he feels the best estimate for the raw land value of the Historic Gas Plant [HGP]-Trop site is about $700 million today, not the $105 million the city will be paid over 30-years. The goal is to get the city council to request a new appraisal. 

 

He also shows each HPG/Trop question asked and results received in this week's Mason-Dixon poll of 625 St. Petersburg voters. He shows each question as asked and their surprising results, often broken down into baseball fans and not baseball fans. He compares this recent poll with the two prior polls, one sponsored by the Rays-Hines team and one taken by the League of Women Voters.