After years of uncertainty, Tampa Bay Rays settle on stadium site

The Tampa Bay Rays are expected to announce the details of a new stadium that will keep the team in St. Petersburg for decades at a Tuesday morning news conference at its current home, Tropicana Field.

The team is planning to announce that a new stadium will be built on the site of the Historic Gas Plant District, a move likely to put to an end years of jockeying between officials from both sides of Tampa Bay — and as far north as Montreal — and solidifying St. Petersburg as the team's long-term, if not permanent, home.

It also could end threats, not always taken seriously by fans but deadly serious, that the Rays would have had to move out of the state altogether if a new stadium was not built.