I would actually say Denver's is more similar to St. Louis's, and KC's would be more similar to San Diego's.chrizow wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 3:29 pm this could be a dumb question which has been discussed previously--but i was in downtown STL recently for work and walking around the govt/courthouse district, which is close to busch stadium. does STL illustrate how a downtown stadium could feel in KC? the two downtown stadium locations seem somewhat similar, esp. with ballpark village/P&L district, and both downtowns experienced rather dramatic declines over the decades until recently. just thinking STL could be a more apt comparison than a place like San Diego or Denver.
St. Louis built their ballpark village next to the ballpark. It's like a P&L. Denver did the same thing basically, they have a "P&L" next to Coors Field, it's Rockies themed, same type of deal. Their focus is more on the pure entertainment side.
The Royals aren't building a ballpark village in that sense. They seemed to be more focused on building residential, office, restaurants, etc. (like Petco in San Diego) rather than a Royals themed entertainment site like StL & the Denver have around their respective stadiums. The Royals are having P&L (several blocks away) just be...P&L, and they're not building their own version of it (AFAIK).
Also, if you comb through the 4 Royals presentations (which I did recently) they mention Petco Park about a dozen times, and mention Coors & Busch only once or twice.
TLDR; SD & KC's = office, residential, etc...STL & DEN's = entertainment