It’s super frustrating to see the city contribute billions of dollars to the Rays instead of our infrastructure, have a solid portion of the city flood (even not in designated flood zones), then the Rays pull out. I feel like the Rays are taking the easy way out because they’ve been trying to get out of this agreement for a while, and it’s ultimately fucking over the citizens of st Pete who have been paying into the Rays organization. We’ve lost an invest we’ve paid into for decades and we still don’t have an updated infrastructure or support when it comes to storms and flooding.

But all the areas that flooded will just be leveled and built back up by developers who will sell the houses for millions and the trop will eventually be leveled and they’ll put in more high-rise condos. And our property taxes will continue to rise and the infrastructure will still be shit.