KCRag Forum

In an interview on KCUR Tara Raghuveer said KCT wasn't necessarily against an East Village location. Also, you would think it would be in the Royals best interests if they're going to ask the city for incentives to replace that affordable housing. I'd even say they should replace and add additional...

All that sounds nice, but that leaves the elephant in the room: the Federal Government. Unless that vacate the building at 9th and Locust (eliminating their usage of the garage at 10th and Cherry) and they hire more security guards for the Bolling Federal Building, then the stadium is a non-starter...

East Village is worse than Crossroads because you’re evicting residents of two affordable housing buildings, need to vacate many more streets, and have to contend with the Feds. If you think KCTenants was pissed about crossroads, you should see them if East Village was brought up. Easily overcome b...

The bus system and transit is a whole nother bunch of bananas. There are fed laws and fair free. I continue to think the best solution is give the chiefs TSC and the royals go to east village with an actual neighborhood built around. Let's call that the mythical 1 billion they were going to invest ...

Since most of us will be waiting for a while for some actual news, I'm going to throw out a wild stadium site. I think you could squeeze a stadium in north of 43rd and Broadway Blvd. Westport would be the entertainment district. It's a couple blocks to the streetcar. Far enough from Plaza NIMBYs (y...

Build it up closer to Grand than their initial vision. Cut the width of Oak in half and eliminate on street parking. It’ll fit, but barely. Would have to be the smallest form factor of any MLB stadium, maybe ever? What's the smallest now? Target Field? Didn't Populous have to fit that one into a ti...

It really does feel like overall the Chiefs never really gave a shit whether this happens or not, and it’s really just been about the Royals only the whole time. I've seen the comments that say the Chiefs wanted this vote on the ballot this year while Parson's was still in office. Could this explai...

Had a friend who was at a mayor James talk on the stadiums today. I asked them to ask or listen for oak street specifically and anything else they didn't they they had heard before. Similar to a post above he said populous is optimistic of keeping oak from being totally vacated. Excited to hear tha...

Had a friend who was at a mayor James talk on the stadiums today. I asked them to ask or listen for oak street specifically and anything else they didn't they they had heard before. Similar to a post above he said populous is optimistic of keeping oak from being totally vacated. Excited to hear tha...

Has there been any conversations on this forum about the bluff/business center area southwest of downtown adjacent to SW Blvd? Seems like a great place for a football stadium. The Chiefs could put the training facility/team offices in "KS", and opportunities for commercial and retail real ...

Donovan says these renovations won't start until after the World Cup modifications. Hoping to have proposed renovations done by 2030, or 2031. Kinda sounds like they accelerated announcing this plan to placate the Royals timeline. When asked why no entertainment options proposed outside the stadium,...

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Glad to see they're finally improving that horrible bottleneck of a bridge to Lot L. Has been horrible access for decades, mostly after games.

It’s not blanket opposition to development, it’s opposition to the home plat entrance essentially at the door step, with 20k avg attendance 81 days a year, at two facilities with skeleton crews for security. Again, not the primary driver to the XR preference over EV, but it was definitely a factor....

Color me skeptical on the Feds shut this down narrative that is now bubbling up. We all know the Feds can present obstacles to get projects to completion, but just like the FAA there are exceptions given all the time. I mean, in Chicago the Federal Building and GSA building are located in the Loop ...

Color me skeptical on the Feds shut this down narrative that is now bubbling up. We all know the Feds can present obstacles to get projects to completion, but just like the FAA there are exceptions given all the time. I mean, in Chicago the Federal Building and GSA building are located in the Loop a...

There appeared to be confirmation of Oak's closure at the stadium announcement. When asked about access to the stadium for people commuting from eastern Jackson Co. with Oak being closed, the Royals infrastructure(?) rep replied their thinking was people from that part of the county would come up 71...

In a city scarred by tear downs, we're advocating tearing down more existing buildings? I'd love to see breakdown of every baseball stadium in the country with surface/structured parking highlighted in the surrounds. I'd bet any proposed garage in EC would be convention center size. See the parking ...

Don't get me wrong, I think the EV site is fine if that is what is chosen. I just don't think anything will be built around it. It will just be the stadium and maybe a very small retail development similar to what cordish built near Bush stadium, but smaller. And I don't ever see Modot properly cle...

Discussion of another site that was previously eliminated is just turning off lots of perspective voters that are already "iffy" on the whole issue of stadium replacement and public financing. This. I've gone from they need to get their marketing and message out to the public on the benef...