KCRag Forum

The Historic Gas Plant District was an African-American neighborhood in St. Petersburg, Florida. It was the second African-American neighborhood in the city. The neighborhood was located along Ninth Street South and south of First Avenue South.
The neighborhood was dismantled in the 1970s when the interstate was built through it. In the late 1980s, the city displaced the neighborhood to make way for the construction of the Tropicana Field stadium.
The Historic Gas Plant District is 86 acres of publicly-owned land in the middle of St. Petersburg. The city of St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, the Tampa Bay Rays, and Hines Development team have agreed to move forward with a new state-of-the-art ballpark.
Tropicana Field is scheduled to be demolished in 2028. Developers will reestablish the street grid west of Booker Creek, including east-west bridges across the creek. This process is expected to take 18 months.

Let's face it the sun has risen and is setting on a downtown ballpark in K.C. Twenty-five years ago -- maybe. They could have put it sort of where Crossroads is now. Still would have been parking problems, but at least the site is central in the City Market to Crown Center to Plaza corridor. The site that was there is now (happily) long gone.
Plus 25 years ago a downtown site still had some buzz, not artificial hype and gaslighting. Now downtown baseball is simply not visionary. It is Cowtown copy-cat.
If Sherm would only get his head out of downtown, he would see the value of the present Truman Complex site. The access alone is unsurpassed. A while back someone on this very Facebook page mentioned development of Truman Complex site and vicinity. If making money from shops, restaurants, bars etc. etc. is the goal, the present site has real possibilities -- and parking. Dream about what could be done on that giant footprint that is the Truman Sports Complex and the surrounding area. All roads lead to it.
On this page, let's offer the Royals' owners a bit of visionary assistance. We keep Kauffman and Arrowhead. We build on the site and environs an entertainment district for fans before and after game, all with zero parking problems or other getting-there angst.
Here is my contribution -- a giant ferris wheel just NW of stadium. This will satisfy the burning need of anyone who goes to a ballgame to see the downtown skyline. And, on the 4th of July, you can see fireworks 360° around. [I know they are building one at Pennway Place off of I-35. Meh. From the Kauffman one, you will be able to see that one.]
Sherm and crew, look outside of your downtown tunnel vision, you will then see the classic, historic ballpark and superior site, you already have. Why bulldoze that masterpiece of sports architecture?
The downtown idea is sooooo 2000. The Truman Sports Complex could blend Royals history with the 21st century. Wake up and smell the newly mown outfield grass at Kauffman Stadium.

Anthony_Hugo98 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 07, 2023 6:09 am

Let's face it the sun has risen and is setting on a downtown ballpark in K.C. Twenty-five years ago -- maybe. They could have put it sort of where Crossroads is now. Still would have been parking problems, but at least the site is central in the City Market to Crown Center to Plaza corridor. The site that was there is now (happily) long gone.
Plus 25 years ago a downtown site still had some buzz, not artificial hype and gaslighting. Now downtown baseball is simply not visionary. It is Cowtown copy-cat.
If Sherm would only get his head out of downtown, he would see the value of the present Truman Complex site. The access alone is unsurpassed. A while back someone on this very Facebook page mentioned development of Truman Complex site and vicinity. If making money from shops, restaurants, bars etc. etc. is the goal, the present site has real possibilities -- and parking. Dream about what could be done on that giant footprint that is the Truman Sports Complex and the surrounding area. All roads lead to it.
On this page, let's offer the Royals' owners a bit of visionary assistance. We keep Kauffman and Arrowhead. We build on the site and environs an entertainment district for fans before and after game, all with zero parking problems or other getting-there angst.
Here is my contribution -- a giant ferris wheel just NW of stadium. This will satisfy the burning need of anyone who goes to a ballgame to see the downtown skyline. And, on the 4th of July, you can see fireworks 360° around. [I know they are building one at Pennway Place off of I-35. Meh. From the Kauffman one, you will be able to see that one.]
Sherm and crew, look outside of your downtown tunnel vision, you will then see the classic, historic ballpark and superior site, you already have. Why bulldoze that masterpiece of sports architecture?
The downtown idea is sooooo 2000. The Truman Sports Complex could blend Royals history with the 21st century. Wake up and smell the newly mown outfield grass at Kauffman Stadium.

Stumbled upon this gem in the “Save the K” Facebook group. If anyone was wondering why KC has shot themselves in the foot so many times in the past half century, look no further than the half brained folks gracing that group. I honestly don’t even know how you’d communicate to people who have this little a grasp on reality of development. It’s wild.

im2kull wrote: ↑Fri Oct 06, 2023 6:34 pm EV is the preferred location, and things seem to be moving forward now after the public outcry and gifting of land resulted in a serious NKC proposal. If both didn't occur the EV would have been passed on.

TheUrbanRoo wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 4:00 pm They're negotiating right now with Jackson Co. NKC has no clue how to fund it. They've got no deal in place at all with NKC. If it is anything, it's prob just more leaks to cause fear.

GRID wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 5:17 pm Have people here thought about what they would do if they do announce NKC as the site? I know I'm not sure what I would do, other than just go along with it since there is not much else to do.

DColeKC wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 6:03 pm

GRID wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 5:17 pm Have people here thought about what they would do if they do announce NKC as the site? I know I'm not sure what I would do, other than just go along with it since there is not much else to do.

Tears, rage, sadness.

In that order.

GRID wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 5:17 pm Have people here thought about what they would do if they do announce NKC as the site? I know I'm not sure what I would do, other than just go along with it since there is not much else to do.