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Could they use the KCMO "Arena Tax" to pay a stadium? The cost of TMobile Center was 270 million in 2007. That's 410 million today adjusted for inflation. Still less than half of what it would cost to build a stadium plus I suspect that tax is still being used to pay off the construction ...

Honest to God, I’m getting annoyed at everyone saying the Royals are going to Nashville or Salt Lake City. Now we’re talking about potentially Oakland (a city that doesn’t give a shit about the A’s)? Give it a rest. Seriously. The Royals are not leaving the KC Metro. Anyone saying they’re leaving c...

GRID wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 12:15 pm I think the Royals end up in NKC. EV would be a long shot, but my bet is on NKC now.

That would be a huge missed opportunity for Kansas City.

And the first speculation of the departure of one of the teams is already hitting national news with the Dallas Mayor making statements about Dallas going after the Chiefs for a second NFL team in the Dallas area.

https://www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-ma ... ity-chiefs

I agree. If the vote were a near pass things would be different. They got clobbered. In the city and in the suburbs. The Royals may have dropped the ball but they also learned a lot from this vote. People in KC do not want a downtown stadium and if the Royals want to move downtown, they will have t...

How do you know it was even her? FB is notorious for fake accounts. I cannot imagine someone in that position making a tone deaf post like that the day after an election even if it accurately portrays the most likely scenario. Why don’t you just go look for yourself? Search her name. Friends with t...

unfortunately neither team will work with Jackson County again. They had been working behind the scenes for two years attempting to get a location approved. Which was I think Frank Whutes plan all along. In any case most unfortunate for sports fans in KC. The lack of leadership has lost the city tw...

East village would not have gotten any more yes votes. I think it woukd have gotten more no votesi n the suburbs. You guys are in a bubble downtown in relation to the rest of the county What's the difference between EV and EC to someone in Eastern Jack? I know so many people in eastern Jackson Coun...

I still believe that the Royals want to be downtown and the Chiefs want to be at Arrowhead. They're not going to throw out their desires because of one failed vote, they'll throw them out only once it's clear that they won't be able to get what they want and we're not at that point yet. Put your do...

Sorry, but this is bad. This is not coming back to a county vote. No way. At the very best case, the state will have to put in a bunch of money to try and do a hail mary, but it will be for a much more watered down project. This grand project south of the Sprint Center is dead. My guess it KC is go...

You might get a chance to vote on Arrowhead again, but the Royals are in serios limbo. And sadly it really seems like most of KC doesn't care about the Royals. Oh they care. They were just naïve enough to think they held all the cards. Unlike Beauty from Ashes, I don't think the Crossroads lost the...

I am not surprised by the outcome. Love or hate social media, the margin of yes/no is about the same as I saw on social media. I thought from the time the Royals decided on East Crossroads to the time of the vote was far too short of duration to sort out all the details let alone a successful campai...

I would not conflate EV with the stadium vote. It's a separate matter that has nothing to do with merits of the EV location. Even if the land had not been banked, I suspect EV would look pretty similar to what it does today. I disagree. East Village would look something like East Crossroads if not ...

Here was the criteria I needed to vote yes and how I see it played out: What I need: - Messaging from the Royals showing care for displaced businesses, sufficient purchase price for buildings and attempts to relocate in surrounding areas. Yes, it seems that the Royals are attempting to work with bu...

I wish I was as optimistic as some of you. I think the vote fails 60% - 40%. Social media (which I know is far from scientific) has been overwhelming vote no. And even the vote yes people aren't completely enthused about the current plan. I see that too. The only hope I have is that social media wa...

The old fire department has been gutted and converted into a residence. The only thing reminding us it’s a an old fire station are people on this forum and a sign on the exterior. Not hardly worth keeping as it’s history has already been stripped clean. It has been awhile since I have been downtown...

There's the Star endorsing a no vote. The star wants the printing press to stand as a monument to their failure! Is there a more anti-development main paper for a metro in the US? I dropped them largely because of their anti-development stance on so many issues and their willingness to incite contr...

It's exhausting. It really shows the lack of understand many people have about wealth in general. I wonder if they thought in everyday people terms if it would help. If I own a $500,000 dollar house and have a few paid off cars, I'm worth say $600k but does that mean I have 600k available to go bui...

The Colorado Rockies are terrible and people go just because it’s pleasant to be there. Downtown baseball stadiums are great. Now if they can work to integrate this with P&L (pregame and postgame festivities there) and use the added revenue to pay off those bonds while also paying into the stre...

It's anything but a zero percent chance. Royals are the third smallest media market in the second smallest metro in baseball. There are far more lucrative places the owners could take the franchise and they will do just that if the franchise becomes a drain on their resources. In fact, the only arg...