Batter up: Business community rallies around Rays

Dozens of leaders formed a group to back the team's bid to move to Tampa.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 7:00 a.m. June 8, 2018
Mark Wemple. Tampa could be the new home of the Rays baseball franchise if a proposed new stadium in Ybor City becomes reality.
Mark Wemple. Tampa could be the new home of the Rays baseball franchise if a proposed new stadium in Ybor City becomes reality.
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Some of the heaviest hitters in the Tampa Bay business community have lined up to support the Tampa Rays’ proposed move to a site in Ybor City. Tampa Bay Rays 2020, an advocacy group founded by Chuck Sykes of Sykes Enterprises and Ronald Christaldi of law firm Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, has formed a subgroup dubbed Rays 100 that’s made up of dozens of high-profile business leaders in the region.

 

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