Without an anchor tenant, The Sprint Center is a failure requiring one miracle after the next while quickly losing appeal



Here are a few statements regarding the Sprint Center's lack of an anchor tenant that aren't my opinion but are facts:

  • The people who proposed the Sprint Center promised an anchor tenant that was somehow connected to sports (they implied either pro hockey or basketball). The promise remains unfulfilled and looks less likely with every passing day.

  • An expert cited in the Star's propaganda piece spinning the absence of an anchor tenant contends: "sports events aren’t your biggest grossing events, but they are consistent and they plug dates in the calendar"

  • Mayor Funkhouser is probably one of the worst promoters of Kansas City imaginable (dour, stubborn, no charisma, unlikeable) and is already preparing for the possibility of no anchor tenant which will already be the case next year.

    Still, the Star's spin casually implies that unprecedented events like the marathon series of shows Garth Brooks put on after he came out of retirement will be commonplace.

    Meanwhile, towns like Las Vegas are making more aggressive bids for major league sports as The Sprint Center is getting older and less attractive to pro teams every day and will no longer be a "new" arena to lure a team quicker than most imagine.

    Talk of a minor league team for an anchor tenant is already on the table and would probably be appropriate GIVEN THAT KANSAS CITY IS A MINOR LEAGUE TOWN.
  • Comments

    1. This is all very interesting, but what does it do to rid this burg of the SHoe-less Queen of Nepotism?

      Do not take your eye off the ball. There is work to be done.

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    2. Yes, the Sprint Center is like a big glass Aunt Gemima. It is a glass mammy. It wears no shoes and bikes to work.

      Latino Brother, Don't Fail Me Now. Get that broken record spinning bitch!

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    3. If you live in your mother's basement, any city in America looks like a minor league town.
      I would love for a minor league hockey team to come to the Sprint Arena- minor league players know they aren't talented enough for the NHL, and the only way they're going to get there is as goons. If you like seeing white people fight, there's nothing better.

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    4. Pedro Tony:

      Just lay off of Funkhouser and quit picking on his wife brown boy. They are both better than you and your skanky mom.

      And the good Lord knows you would never have the money to attend anything at Sprint Center, so I imagine you are just pissed that there are so many police around the area that it makes pickpocketing and mugging tough. Or do you just "sell" to kids?

      And unless you are hear to clean gutters or pick up leaves, you have no reason to come down here south of 85th Street.

      We do not like the smell of beaner farts in the good areas of town.

      That's it liberals take that big gasping breath. Welcome to the real world.

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    5. How many times have you posted this exact same drivel? Are you going to come up with something new at any point?

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    6. In realty Mayor Funkhouser would of never agreed to build a arena without an anchor. Kay Barnes should be at fault for this problem and she is.

      Its a great place for Tony's favorite sport: Bull Fighting.

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    7. Sprint Center sucks and the "entertainment district" is the laughing stock of the country.....

      Maybe we can put in a carnival while we are at it? 12th and Broadways sound good to anyone?

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    8. oh look something shiny...

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    9. For ghetto fucktards to shoot windows out of.

      Oh, wait. They already do that. Yeah for KC! Put something nice up near the East side and watch the savages rip it to pieces. That'll teach the city to spend any money in the East.

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    10. damned if you do - damned if you don't.
      What would it take to make this asshole happy? I've never seen a man bitch so much in all my life.

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    11. I've never seen someone get so worked up over an arena. I can't believe the horror that we now have a new stadium. It's not like Kemper was a complete joke or anything....

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    12. I know. What horror is soon to befall KC next? More police? Better schools? More jobs? Safer streets? The place is going into the fucking shitter one improvement at a time.

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    13. sprint will be out of business in a year...what will we call kay barnes rain garden then?

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    14. Then the namerights will be purchased by another failing corporation. Maybe it will be the "Blackwater Center."

      This is actually a very nice idea. Get the money upfront from tanking corporation. When they disappear in bankruptcy, resell naming rights to another failing corporation. Repeat as needed.

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    15. Well, let's not gripe without offering suggestions for help.

      The management need to take a class or get a consultant on how to get people into and out of the building faster.

      I just went to the Transiberian Ochestra concert. The venue seemed run by amatuers. It took far to long to get people into the building. they had 2/3 of the doors closed and when you got to the ticket check the workers had no table, they had to scan a flapping ticket in the draft which takes a while.

      Also a note about the venue, the seats in the higher elevations are so cramped that everyone between you and the aisle needs to stand up to let you out and come back in. On the floor there are cup holders built into the seat on the lower row in the path where you walk. This is a great thing to trip over in the dark! I know, I did and nearly flew into the row below. It seems like this was made without regards to common sense! They need to re-engineer this before people get hurt ( I wonder how many have been injured on this already?)

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    16. Hey who's brilliant idea was it to make a venue with no reasonably attached parking? You have to park at a parking garage somewhere else and brave the weather to get to the place. This isn't very "customer" oriented.

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