DColeKC wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:44 pm
TheBigChuckbowski wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:00 pm
So... What happens if the county sales tax passes but the team can't get the money from the city and state? Are we paying to maintain a non-existent stadium for the next 40 years?
The money has already been discussed with the leaders of those two entities agreeing to go to bat for the team. No pun intended.
I think we should just do the small midwest stereotypical thing and say fuck it. NO! You can' have my $72 dollars a year for your big shiny stadium! I want to know what every door handle will look like and where every penny will be spent. I'd also like no one to be even slightly inconvenienced. Please fit a baseball stadium in a footprint smaller than any other MLB stadium has ever been so we can keep all our extremely busy streets open. And how dare you not put a crown on top of those "conceptual drawings".
Maybe they can extend Oak all the way to Kansas and call it "Royal Way".
Sorry for the vent here but it's one thing seeing average joes saying they'll vote no but didn't expect this on a development forum. Can't wait to come back here in a decade when none of the existing businesses that currently occupy this area of EC are there anymore. It's still dark and boring. The Star Building is a rich persons fancy car show room and East Village is still empty surface lots because we don't have reason to build it out.
This location is the next evolution of our downtowns progress. It slows so far down without this. At this point, they're presenting a conceptual business plan hoping to get financing. So many things would change after it goes from concept to reality. We should have had MLS Soccer down here but Kansas kicked our ass and now we've got a MLS stadium next to a fucking Nebraska Furniture Mart. Step right up MLB, let's "KC" this thing up.
You are being as tone deaf as the billionaire owners which is why it's going to fail unless you wake up and get the owners to wake up quickly as people are already voting.
It's not about $72/year, it's about how all of the upgrades Arrowhead are for luxury boxes and not for the average taxpayer that's funding it.
It's not about pennies and doorknobs, it's about 100s of millions that are unaccounted for and why they are being dishonest about the true costs to the taxpayers when unspecified amounts are coming from other levels of government.
It's not just about Oak and the businesses, it's about their total disregard for everyone in their way, treating the area as something they are entited to. There were literally multiple construction projects ongoing that the royals didn't have the courteousy to tell the owners that they were wasting their time and money.
It's not just about crown vision missing, it's about how fans have been loud as hell since the original EV drawings came out years ago without crown vision. It shows the owners aren't listening,