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by aknowledgeableperson
Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:57 am
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7186677

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

The city will probably issue municipal bonds that shouldn’t be paid for by the tax payers. On another topic. Have the Royals released to the public what is their planned timeline for the promised development and what its contemplated composition would be? Yes I believe it was opening day 2028 That ...
by aknowledgeableperson
Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:48 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7186677

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

The city will probably issue municipal bonds that shouldn’t be paid for by the tax payers. Does the city currently have the bonding capacity to issue the bonds needed for city funds? If not then another vote by the city is necessary for bond issuance. If they use TIF or Super TIF bonds will the cit...
by aknowledgeableperson
Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:49 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7186677

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

dnweava wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:05 pm
It'd be pretty weird to call a team in Nashville, "Kansas City"
Of course if the team played in the KC metro.
:lol:
by aknowledgeableperson
Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:27 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7186677

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

Besides 50+ years of history and both teams having “Kansas City” in their official names… the loss of tax revenue. The loss of synergy with KC etc. Shooting for gold, which is downtown baseball and ending up with suburban baseball- Travesty. Trying to extend the life of one of the most iconic NFL s...
by aknowledgeableperson
Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:33 am
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7186677

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

DColeKC wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:17 pm I don't mean these teams may leave the metro, but they will leave "Kansas City" and that'll be a god damn, mother fucking travesty. But hey..... roads right.
Why leaving KCMO but staying in the metro area is a travesty?
by aknowledgeableperson
Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:02 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7186677

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

If the Royals are going to get money from the city and state, it’s already been agreed upon. So, why won’t they release those numbers? Because the exact figures haven’t been confirmed and why would a political leader take a risk if they don’t need to? Mayor Lucas and Governor Parsons know that ther...
by aknowledgeableperson
Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:12 am
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7186677

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

I don't think we need the details at this point on the other funding mechanisms. We're not voting on that portion. The city and state won't waste time talking numbers if the teams can't get past step one. I think it only takes some common sense to assume the city and state have privately committed ...
by aknowledgeableperson
Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:44 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7186677

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

"That's just it, there are many out there that do not trust it will be done right. Especially not much trust in city leaders." Let me explain this more. There is a certain segment of Kansas City who definitely don't trust Mayor Lucas and other city leaders. Their take is Lucas and others a...
by aknowledgeableperson
Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:41 am
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7186677

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

I mean come on, I understand wanting to have more details about the CBA and what the Royals will do for those displaced businesses but let's have some basic trust in our city leaders, architects, engineers and stakeholders who do not want to make anything worse or a massive inconvenience to do good...
by aknowledgeableperson
Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:13 am
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7186677

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

I seriously doubt few if any will be open to the public unless you are handicapped. Would imagine the rest are for players and employees plus a few VIPs.
by aknowledgeableperson
Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:21 am
Forum: Kansas City Sports
Topic: NBA to Kansas City
Replies: 375
Views: 131387

Re: NBA to Kansas City

"An exhibition hall the size of eight football fields. Boasting 388,800 square feet of column-free exhibit space on one floor, Bartle Hall truly stands in a category by itself." But that is just the main hall The center also has other exhibit space that might be acceptable depending on how...
by aknowledgeableperson
Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:27 am
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7186677

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

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by aknowledgeableperson
Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:29 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7186677

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

TheUrbanRoo wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2024 12:33 pm This whole thing is just way too much about the Royals when it needs to be about the Chiefs
I don't think people are concerned about the Chiefs. If this vote fails there will soon be another structured differently.
by aknowledgeableperson
Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:22 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7186677

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

Why isn't there a concentrated push to counter misperceptions about parking? One person's perceptions is their reality. And that reality is hard to fight. Right now in the news the woman's soccer team is going to charge $50 to park in their lot. People see that and are wondering what parking costs ...
by aknowledgeableperson
Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:04 pm
Forum: Kansas City Sports
Topic: NBA to Kansas City
Replies: 375
Views: 131387

Re: NBA to Kansas City

4. City have a NBA team.
by aknowledgeableperson
Wed Feb 21, 2024 7:32 am
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7186677

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

It's funny about the Feds concerns about safety. I know times are different now but I remember there was a post office in the building open to the public. Commercial businesses were at street level on the south side (one was a jeweler I knew). The public could come in and eat a cheap lunch at the ca...
by aknowledgeableperson
Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:48 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7186677

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

DColeKC wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 12:17 pm
I'm not even talking about land acquisition being in the top three reasons EV was and is out.
I might have missed it but why was East Village eliminated as a site? Afterall it was one of the two choices remaining when the team eliminated a few others.
by aknowledgeableperson
Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:27 am
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7186677

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

Another take: PICTURED IS FENWAY PARK in Boston where I lived for a couple years before returning to KC. I developed a genuine affection for Fenway and the Red Socks (‘’Yay Yastremski ! ! !’’) and from a distance kept periodic tabs with what was happening with the grand old gal. In 1999 Earl Santee ...
by aknowledgeableperson
Mon Feb 19, 2024 5:24 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7186677

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

is KC Tennants powerful enough to kill this project? Yes* Only if they're able to turn out enough non-voters to offset the millions to be spent by the teams. This is quite different than a council campaign, which I believe is the only claim they've made about electoral success? There is also a larg...
by aknowledgeableperson
Mon Feb 19, 2024 5:21 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8092
Views: 7186677

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

KCPowercat wrote: Mon Feb 19, 2024 4:57 pm
Have you been on the internet?
Been snowbirding for the past 4+ weeks.