Getting it to 75th would be great. Sure a bunch of Brookside residents would raise hell about it tho.
Downtown Royals Stadium
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Jackson County owns that, and the County Executive has put together a task force to look into what becomes of the site.
My brookside friends are all for it, but you are right. The majority would be against it. Don't want the "poors" in our neighborhood. If it made it to 75th I would never have to drive and that would be awesome.
That image is from the previous proposal when the Royals were looking to build on the site of the former Kansas City Star building.
Things change, including the sport. I’m fine with all that. But the Braves’ ballpark district is the only example people can cite of publicly funded stadiums effecting material, sustained economic activity in those areas, so I’m going to be skeptical of that rationale until we start seeing data. I very much hope to be proven wrong
Seems like a decent location. Crown Center has somewhat been on the decline the last decade, so this might be a nice shot in the arm for the area.
If that is what the ballpark is going to look like...I don't like how many seats are in the OF! That seems like a mistake if they plan on the ballpark having that seating configuration.
All the data points in the exact opposite direction. No one should be allowed to say tax payer funded stadiums boost economic activity. The only people that benefit are team owners. This work has been done.
Professional Sports and the Lack of Local Economic Payoffs - Conversable Economist
I'm a sports fan, which in this case may represent a conflict of interest, because it means I'm conflicted about public subsidies going to sports stadiums. The economic evidence on this point is pretty clear: such subsidies can transfer how people spend their entertainment dollars from one area...
conversableeconomist.com
Personally I'm more concerned with the fact this team was supposed to be rising and its the worst in the league. Again.
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All the data points in the exact opposite direction. No one should be allowed to say tax payer funded stadiums boost economic activity. The only people that benefit are team owners. This work has been done.
Professional Sports and the Lack of Local Economic Payoffs - Conversable Economist
I'm a sports fan, which in this case may represent a conflict of interest, because it means I'm conflicted about public subsidies going to sports stadiums. The economic evidence on this point is pretty clear: such subsidies can transfer how people spend their entertainment dollars from one area...
Personally I'm more concerned with the fact this team was supposed to be rising and its the worst in the league. Again.
Petco Park seems to have been a catalyst for San Diego. That area is poppin' now
Only conceptual images more to give you an idea of where the park will be.
Looks like it's south of Crown Center and north of 26th street as opposed to the Washington Square park site the city proposed.
I think there's much more room there and a parking garage straight south.
Maybe now Washington Square park can be used for tailgating?
I think there's much more room there and a parking garage straight south.
Maybe now Washington Square park can be used for tailgating?
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I'm sure it will be a lot like Minneapolis and St. Louis where the only time many use public transportation is for baseball games.
And the good thing about baseball is 81 games a year makes parking ramps more viable. I can't imagine there won't be several parking ramps similar to those at Target Field. In my experience, transportation issues end up being much worse for football stadiums than baseball stadiums in almost every city I've been to.
That's almost strictly a factor of the volume of people since baseball games generally have 30-50% the number of fans attending.
So they demo the Hallmark building and nothing else based on that, right? Seems like a good choice. Facing due north could make for some fun CF/RF play. Heaven for LF.
Yeah, sounds like they're entering a partnership with Hallmark. They'll demo Hallmark HQ and move it somewhere else. The new stadium will be a part of Crown Center. It really does give them options for things to do around the stadium. Crown Center has a nice courtyard area with an outdoor stage where they have Oktoberfests. Would be a great place to have live bands before or after games.
