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by Highlander
Wed Feb 21, 2024 11:25 am
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8412
Views: 8121592

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

I do think there's time to get the word out. If for some reason this vote fails, I think we can expect another try in the fall and if that fails, we have lost our one chance at downtown baseball. They will not be renovating Kauffman and they just need to say that, amongst other things. They need to...
by Highlander
Tue Feb 20, 2024 6:48 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8412
Views: 8121592

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

GRID wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 6:32 pm What is step 2 though? :-|
Step two is getting use to the Royals playing at the Legends.
by Highlander
Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:58 am
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8412
Views: 8121592

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

Austin's a weird town. UT might as well be the NFL there Austin's not a slow growth midwestern city. It's a sunbelt city with the fastest growth rate of any city in the US and in a very business friendly state. There is not a 1:1 relationship between pro sport cities and growth or economic developm...
by Highlander
Mon Feb 19, 2024 11:21 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8412
Views: 8121592

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

Austin seems fine without football or baseball. Austin's a weird town. UT might as well be the NFL there Austin's not a slow growth midwestern city. It's a sunbelt city with the fastest growth rate of any city in the US and in a very business friendly state. There is not a 1:1 relationship between ...
by Highlander
Mon Feb 19, 2024 8:55 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8412
Views: 8121592

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

https://globalsportmatters.com/business/2022/06/15/so-your-city-wants-sports-stadium/ If you dig into the associations of the author, you will find that he's affiliated with a right wing conservative organization (The American Enterprise Institute) with some Libertarian's tendencies that fundamenta...
by Highlander
Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:35 pm
Forum: Kansas City Transportation
Topic: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal
Replies: 3886
Views: 694273

Re: OFFICIAL - New KCI Terminal

Almost a year since opening and people are still happy with the new terminal over the old ones. You love to see and hear it! except some people who fly little who now have to walk a little more I was deplaning with some of these people last week. The romanticizing of old terminals was pretty hilari...
by Highlander
Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:08 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8412
Views: 8121592

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

There's so much more to how this all went down and I'm not making excuses for The Royals. One day, I've private message those who are interested and explain what I was privy to but that'll be after the shovel hits the dirt. It wasn't nefarious, it was just unorganized. East Village is out, it's not...
by Highlander
Mon Feb 19, 2024 4:51 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8412
Views: 8121592

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

Royals owner, John Sherman, is worth more than a billion dollars and is the founder and CEO of an energy company that merged with another in 2013 to become one of the biggest in North America. The stadium complex the Royals want to build will cost around $2 billion, but it includes things like a ho...
by Highlander
Mon Feb 19, 2024 4:31 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8412
Views: 8121592

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

From https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article285655497.html The Royals said last week that their plan is to buy the properties and then hand title to the county, which would own the stadium. So the county owns the stadium? Then it’s not building a stadium for a billionaire at all...
by Highlander
Mon Feb 19, 2024 3:48 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Politics
Replies: 3287
Views: 609012

Re: Politics

It's nice to see Q is serious about crime. What a total joke. https://nypost.com/2024/02/18/us-news/kansas-city-mayor-accuses-governor-of-racial-dog-whistle-for-calling-parade-shooters-thugs/ I just don't understand how the word thug is now a racist term, the definition of a thug is a violent, aggr...
by Highlander
Mon Feb 19, 2024 3:33 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8412
Views: 8121592

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

And so it begins. Their math is just off. The median income in Jackson County is about $32k. $167/year is more than 3/8 of a percent of their entire gross income. This is a sales tax, not an income tax. At least if they want to be honest about it. Maybe they took the average, intending to intention...
by Highlander
Mon Feb 19, 2024 3:17 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8412
Views: 8121592

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

And so it begins. https://i.ibb.co/ypt7Ttp/F389-D912-C4-F2-41-A6-BBE9-8-EECE0-E78-D95.jpg https://i.ibb.co/bQCvprD/75623-DE2-A7-AE-437-F-891-B-A8-A2090942-FA.jpg https://i.ibb.co/NK4J3q2/E9-BE196-E-F16-D-4974-B582-F83281-B3-C480.jpg What is incorrect? That they have a better vision for the future i...
by Highlander
Mon Feb 19, 2024 1:46 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8412
Views: 8121592

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

Oak closing to vehicle traffic is a non-starter is the issue. Having that many thoroughfares over 670 closed (when you include the Cap closures and Grands frequency of closure) destroys any hope of Streetcar being functional unless Main was closed to vehicle traffic and became a transit-way. But, a...
by Highlander
Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:11 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Chiefs Super Bowl Parade - 2024
Replies: 25
Views: 1565

Re: Chiefs Super Bowl Parade - 2024

they still had parades after the 1993 Cowboys Parade A different era. Mass shootings had not become so commonplace and were not the subject of an intense national discussion in 1993. I've watched this discussion evolve on the national sporting talk shows with some pundits suggesting this would be t...
by Highlander
Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:54 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8412
Views: 8121592

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

It's hard to escape the relative poverty of this county and city with the expectations. The average person may not be able to afford to go to many games or even to watch them on television. What are we doing? Baseball is far more affordable than football for the average person. This is why I strugg...
by Highlander
Sun Feb 18, 2024 2:00 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8412
Views: 8121592

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

That’s not what I’m talking about. There’s one post that’s been shared over 4,000 times that claims the village portion will be paid for by taxpayers. The village portion will be paid for with a billion dollars of private investment. How will the hundreds of dollars in tax revenue currently being g...
by Highlander
Sun Feb 18, 2024 1:58 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8412
Views: 8121592

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

We are taught from a young age that it is important to study and learn from history. If we do that, we would conclude that the likely outcome of this charade is: the tax will pass; buildings will get demolished; the highway cap does not get extended to the stadium; and hotel on the demolished build...
by Highlander
Sat Feb 17, 2024 3:32 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8412
Views: 8121592

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

First of all, the voting has already began (Absentee votes) so a certain percentage of voters are not going to be swayed by continuing arguments for and against. Secondly, an East Village site has all the potential negative consequences that an East Crossroads site has. They are just different. In t...
by Highlander
Sat Feb 17, 2024 3:04 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8412
Views: 8121592

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

The dream is to do what you’re passionate about while also making a fucking pile of money. Anyone who says the profit portion isn’t important is lying. The "fucking pile of money" (god the annoyance with that statement), just doesn't play into it. You do it because you enjoy the challenge...
by Highlander
Sat Feb 17, 2024 2:39 pm
Forum: New Stadiums Discussion
Topic: Downtown Baseball Stadium
Replies: 8412
Views: 8121592

Re: Downtown Baseball Stadium

It depends on the business. Some will do very well with the Royals nearby. Yeah, some will and some will be worse off. There's more to the Crossroads than breweries. A complete lack of critical mass and the city's ability to think any of that through. And, so we're suddenly going to trust the city ...