Kansas City committee recommends passing three measures related to a new Kansas City Royals Stadium at Crown Center.
The committee recommended rezoning of an area of about 68 acres located south of Pershing Road, west of Gillham Road, north of E. 27th Street and east of Main Street. It also recommended recommendations of the Tax Increment Financing Commission to enact a new stadium impact area policy.
Finally, it recommended the issuance of approximately $600 million in bonds to pay the city’s portion
of the $1.9 billion stadium. The Royals also plan an associated billion-dollar mixed use development and reimagined Crown Center in partnership with Hallmark Cards that will be privately funded.
“This is a long investment, a large investment, the stakes are very high,” Councilman Crispin Rea said during Tuesday’s committee meeting.
Before the city authorizes the $600 million in bonds by the Missouri Development Finance Board they wanted to make sure they’d be able to collect enough taxes over the next 30 years to pay back an estimated nearly $1.4 billion in debt service.
Jackson County has some ideas for what to do with Truman Sports Complex after the Kansas City Chiefs and Kansas City Royals no longer call it home.
David Hudnall lists why Kansas City citizens should be skeptical of recent financial analysis regarding the Royals moving downtown.
The numbers fit awfully neatly
Kansas City plans to finance much of its $600 million contribution by borrowing money and paying it back over decades. By the time the debt is paid off, the city expects to have paid more than twice that amount in principal and interest — about $1.393 billion. This Hunden analysis says our plan will produce just enough in tax revenue to cover that: the aforementioned $1.4 billion. But remember, Kansas City had already settled on its $600 million commitment before Hunden finished this analysis. Now the study has arrived, and it projects almost exactly the amount of revenue to cover the cost of the borrowing. Are Kansas City’s city leaders really such financial savants that they picked the right number months before the analysis was finished? Or were Hunden’s projections tortured until they produced a number just high enough to make the deal pencil out? You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to suspect the latter.
Kansas City remembers Buck O’Neil, a baseball man through and through with decades of ties to the area. It has been 20 years since the Hall of Famer passed away.
Phil Shafer, a muralist with Sike Style, helped create a mural on 3rd and Broadway in Kansas City preserving O’Neil’s passion for storytelling.
“He had a good sense of humor. He was really all about championing other people,” Shafer said. “He was a really good connector that way. He wanted people to feel like they could come and talk to him, and he could tell his stories to them.”
Nelson said O’Neil made everyone feel at home.
The Royals kept O’Neil’s seat at Kauffman Stadium after he served the franchise as a scout.
Former Royals southpaw Bailey Falter elects free agencyafter a tumultuous calendar year.
The veteran left-hander came to Atlanta at the trade deadline along with outfielder Lane Thomas. Falter tossed two scoreless outings with the Braves. It was a nice bounceback showing after he was crushed for 15 earned runs over 9 2/3 innings in Kansas City. Falter has shuffled between multiple organizations over the past few seasons. He’s been a useful swingman, outside of his stint with the Royals. Falter is the most likely candidate of this group to find an MLB gig in 2027.
Kings of Kauffman’s Matthew Swigonski pitches Kansas City trading both Michael Wacha and Seth Lugo this offseason as a near-must move to address 2027 needs.
But with a flawed roster at the moment, the team needed an opportunity to inject more talent all around. Wacha was the chance to achieve that. Meanwhile parting ways with Lugo would have given the Royals the chance to free up money to use in free agency this offseason. Now it seems unlikely that Royals GM J.J. Picollo will have the funds to pursue any significant free agent talent.
The Royals holding onto Wacha and Lugo at the deadline was certainly a bold strategy. But the team will have a hard time justifying their willingness to run it back in 2027 if their roster is plagued with the same concerns as this season.
The payrolls are polar opposites, and so are the postseason results between the Tampa Bay Rays and New York Yankees.
San Diego Padres manager Craig Stammen says the team isn’t worriedabout closer Mason Miller possibly tipping pitches against the Milwaukee Brewers.
The Colorado Rockies improved their 2026 record by 15 wins from the previous season, but that improvement comes at a higher cost for fans.
The New York Yankees’ fielding issues were bad, awful, atrocious on Monday. Pick your adjective.
The Chicago White Sox have the coveted chance of winning a postseason series at home against the Cleveland Guardians.
FanGraphs’ Eric Longenhagen and Brendan Gawlowski detailMLB testing out outfield positioning rules in the Arizona Fall League. Would you want to see this in MLB?
Former Cleveland pitcher and six-time All-Star pitcher Sam McDowell passed away at 84.
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway issued a cease-and-desist orderto prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket.
Soccer legend Lionel Messi records his final national game with Argentina.
Missouri Tigers freshman offensive lineman Johnnie Jones is hospitalized and now needs a heart transplant.
Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman Lane Johnson calls it a career after 14 years.
Former Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy is set to join TNT as guest analyst.
Humans are hunter-gatherers by nature. But as the skills begin to dwindle, there is a resurgence in classes teaching these skills to newcomers.
The Giving Grove orchards grew from Kansas City roots, but now help millions of people.
Today’s song of the day is Beneath Oak Trees by Dylan Gossett.
