Critical Mass and bringing tens of thousands of people downtown should be our priority.
Put the Royals at the E. Loop or Washington Square Park in southern downtown. Put the Wizards E of the loop near the highway bringing additional 15k-20k people downtown. And leave the Chiefs at the TSC with a new stadium.
For the Chiefs, they should tear down Arrowhead, replace it with a 81,000+ seat stadium on Kauffman's former site and put a domed structure on the former site of Arrowhead for Post-Season training and practice...
On the issue of putting a pro team on or near the State Line in Kansas... Would this really benefit Kansas City? The only way it could benefit us is by having WyCo voting for BiState things that don't benefit them, and even then they could brag over MO... Another issue on this would be desirability... Look at the Kemper disaster, do we really want people seeing the West Bottom and DT KCK (we know the situation there, not bashing it), I don't think it'd help our image very much. Sure they could see DT closer but they would have to drive through the West Bottoms or DT KCK to get to the stadium wherever they'd put it.
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The best location would be near Kemper's location and level the blighted areas of the West Bottoms for tailgating space...
The location near Kemper (yes in KCMO since most of the W. Bottoms is in KCMO) would be close to both DT KCMO and DT KCK and people in the suburbs of both sides would have equal drives to the stadium...
I'd hate to have to demolish so much but the W. Bottoms is pretty much helpless IMO and it'd bring 80,000+ people DT every game.
It would be close enough to KS to make WyCo residents happy (along with some JoCo residents)
It'd also be very symbolic, thousands of people cooking BBQ on KC's former stockyards. Remember, that area used to be just stocks etc... So it wouldn't look much different except the fact the land would be 6-7ft smaller than the stocks were...
In fact, the perfect location would be just south of the highway and north of Kemper, not many buildings there (they'd preserve the Livestock Exchange Building) and it's next to the main highway between KCK and KCMO...
I just got another idea... Put the stadium partially in KCMO and partially in KCK... There is a building there that crosses the state lines in fact...
It'd be close enough to all the rail sites that they could include some light rail...
The combination of American Royal BBQ and Chiefs Tailgating would rock!!!
And the area can easily support the needed amount of parking...
Map outlining my idea:
This would dramatically improve the desirability of the West Bottoms and could help the West Bottoms go under a large residential and commercial boom.
And not only would KCMO and JaCo would donate to help make this a possibility, but KCK and WyCo would also donate to help make this a possibility.
This would make KC more a bistate town than locating a stadium in KS would... And it'd keep both states happy...
Also, I betcha that when KU and MU games were played, they'd play them here
MU would have their benches on the MO side, KU on the KS side... MU Fans on the MO side and KU fans on the KS side
And they could locate the Chiefs training/practice dome in JoCo to help keep them happy too.. (and make this more of a bistate community)
Also considering most Chiefs live in JoCo and Vermeil lives near the Plaza... They wouldn't have to go very far for training...
This project however, should be done in phases with the stadium/demolition/parking lots being done first and everything else done later...
Have BiState IV saying something like...
Do you support raising _____ taxes to help build a BiState Chiefs Stadium in Wyandotte County and Jackson county, a Chiefs training camp in Johnson County (Kansas), a Royals stadium in Crown Center, and a Wizards Stadium in Clay County?
You will definitely have all four counties with that BiState tax...
Build the training camp during the season... Then build Arrowhead II during the off-season (while the Chiefs train in JoCo)... At the same time, build Kauffman II while the Royals play their last year at Kauffman...
Besides making this stadium over 80,000 seats, they should add a retractable roof... Then we could become a real contentor for a future Super Bowl... Plenty of parking, plenty of transportation, plenty of entertainment, a good facility, etc...
I'd absolutely love seeing the Super Bowl come to KC... Thousands upon thousands of people converging on this city, and millions of people watching this city for 1 week