OK, so the Rays stadium redevelopment project got approved. Now what?

One of the largest projects in Tampa Bay history took a decisive step forward Thursday when the St. Petersburg City Council approved plans for a new downtown Tampa Bay Rays ballpark surrounded by homes, hotels, offices, a concert venue and a museum.

Council members voted 5-3 to approve a set of agreements with the Rays and Hines, the team’s development partner. The city agreed to spend $429.5 million toward a stadium and infrastructure in the Historic Gas Plant District.

So what’s next? What will this look like? Just how big is it?

Here are the numbers to help make sense of a project that will reshape the region for generations.

$6,500,000,000

The estimated total public and private investment into the stadium and redevelopment. That makes it more expensive than the Water Street project in downtown Tampa, which is expected to cost $4 billion by the time it’s done. It’s nearly six times the reported cost of The Battery Atlanta, the Braves ballpark and entertainment district that’s often used as a reference for what the Rays envision.

400

Hotel rooms that would be built over the next two decades. That’s enough to fill downtown St. Petersburg’s AC Hotel by Marriott more than twice, or 46 more rooms than the waterfront Vinoy. Water Street has just over 1,500 rooms spread across four properties.

1,250

The number of on- and off-site affordable and workforce housing units developers have promised to build over the next 23 years. Three hundred of those units have to be built by 2030 — they’d account for less than 4% of the 8,000 affordable homes the city has promised to create and preserve by the decade’s end.

4,000 to 6,000

The number of seats planned for Booker Music Hall, the entertainment venue that developers have proposed building next to the new stadium, though it isn’t required to be built. That’s larger than Pinellas venues including Jannus Live, Ruth Eckerd Hall and the Duke Energy Center for the Arts’ Mahaffey Theater, all of which fit about 2,000. The BayCare Sound, Clearwater’s waterfront amphitheater, can fit 9,000 between its covered seats and its lawn.

So who draws those kinds of crowds? Jannus gets packed for beloved metal and punk bands — Underoath, Rise Against and Violent Femmes have already sold out dates this fall — and ascending pop star Chappell Roan’s show there in May was a hot ticket. Ruth Eckerd Hall hosted Bob Dylan in March and got an intimate set from Ed Sheeran last year ahead of his show at Raymond James Stadium. But the biggest names in pop, country hitmakers and legacy rock bands often wind up in Tampa, playing at much larger venues: Raymond James, Amalie Arena or the Midflorida Credit Union Amphitheatre.

14,000

Parking spaces upon completion of the stadium and surrounding development. That would more than double the number of spaces that comprise the sea of asphalt surrounding Tropicana Field. Downtown Tampa has a total of 32,000 parking spaces. Tampa International Airport has 23,000.

11,000

Ongoing annual full- and part-time jobs estimated to be created from the redevelopment. That’s more than half of the 19,000 who work at MacDill Air Force Base. St. Petersburg had about 3,600 city workers as of last summer. Jabil, one of the largest companies headquartered in St. Petersburg, has about 1,745 local employees.

12

Minimum acres of open space required in the Historic Gas Plant District, an increase from 10 in earlier versions of the plan. That’s about the same size as Vinoy Park on St. Petersburg’s waterfront – or about nine football fields.

13,373

The difference between the proposed capacity of the Rays’ new stadium of roughly 30,000 and its average 2024 attendance of 16,627, per ESPN — the third-lowest in the MLB this season. The gap is nearly double the number of students that graduated from USF this spring, or about 80 empty Boeing 737 Max jets.

9,680

The Rays and Hines plan to build a minimum of 4,400 housing units in the Historic Gas Plant District. Fully occupied at the city average of just over two people per household, that would come to 9,680 residents — a population larger than several Pinellas County cities, including St. Pete Beach and Treasure Island.

20 or less

Number of minutes it will take to walk between any two points within the Historic Gas Plant District, according to the developers. Today, walking the perimeter of the property between two opposite corners takes about 15 minutes at an average pace, according to Google Maps.

500,000

Total square feet reserved for premier medical and office space that developers are promising. That’s about double the size of the Seminole Hard Rock & Casino Tampa. 100 North Tampa, the tallest office tower in Tampa Bay, totals 572,111 square feet. If built, it would be about 1% of Tampa Bay’s total office space.

240

Measured in feet, the highest point in the proposed stadium, per the latest renderings. That’s not much higher than the 225-foot peak of the dome on Tropicana Field. But the Rays have said it was designed with extensive modeling to avoid impacting play, unlike the Trop’s catwalks, which have been batting down, and occasionally snaring, fly balls since the Devil Rays’ first season 26 years ago.

3,400

The number of acres drained by Booker Creek, which runs between Tropicana Field and the new stadium site on its way to Tampa Bay, making it St. Petersburg’s largest drainage basin. The developers have described it as a central environmental feature of the Historic Gas Plant District.

$312,500,000

What Pinellas County would commit from its tourist tax chest for the final piece of funding needed for a stadium. A vote is tentatively set for July 30, though that date could be pushed if county commissioners want more time, County Administrator Barry Burton said earlier this week. County commissioners have generally spoken favorably of the deal.

$2,430,725

How much planning for the Historic Gas Plant District redevelopment project and stadium deal cost St. Petersburg as of June. That figure includes payments for the city’s consultants, an economic impact study and legal expenses for outside counsel.

2055

When an estimated $683,840,750 of St. Petersburg’s public debt for the stadium and the Gas Plant’s infrastructure will be paid off, according to an April estimate.

$75,000

The highest per-unit penalty the Rays and Hines could face for failing to build promised affordable housing. That penalty is for the final round of 350 units, due by 2047. Earlier phases have smaller penalties. None are tied to inflation. For comparison, the Rays’ highest-paid player this year, pitcher Zach Eflin, was set to make about $68,000 per regular-season game in 2024.

$50,400,000

The amount that the Rays and Hines must spend over the first 12 years of development. The Rays and Hines can refuse certain parcels planned for the Historic Gas Plant District.

17

Years since the Rays first said they wanted a new ballpark in the Tampa Bay area.

6

The number of mayors in two cities — Rick Baker, Bill Foster, Rick Kriseman, Bob Buckhorn, Jane Castor and St. Pete’s current mayor, Ken Welch — had a hand in negotiations with the Rays for a new stadium.

536

Days between Welch picking Rays and Hines to develop the Gas Plant and the final vote on the project by the City Council.

23.3

Distance in miles along the shortest route between Tropicana Field and the Ybor City site the Rays once pursued for a ballpark. Amid the team’s attendance woes, some critics have argued that staying in St. Petersburg keeps the team too far from the region’s population center — and many fans.

800

Black residents displaced by a city plan, created in the 1970s, to redevelop the Gas Plant neighborhood for better housing and jobs. Instead, the city dropped the plan in favor of building a baseball stadium.

$4,000

How much St. Petersburg offered Gas Plant-area tenants in 1979 to relocate. Businesses could accept actual moving costs and get a fixed amount between $2,500 and $10,000. Those who owned their homes were offered $15,000 above assessed value of their homes to buy a comparable home in another area.

39

The number of years since 1985, when the last residents of the Gas Plant neighborhood moved out. The first round of affordable housing in the new Historic Gas Plant District must be done by 2030, per the developers’ deal with the city. By then, 45 years will have passed without anyone living on the grounds where a community once thrived.

3,000,000

The number of kilowatt-hours of free, clean energy generated by on-site solar products for the stadium. The stadium would rank No. 1 in Major League Baseball for solar-generated power.