KEMPER ARENA RENAMED HY-VEE ARENA FOR KANSAS CITY AMATEUR SPORTS COMPLEX THAT MIGHT NOT WORK!!!



More Kansas City name game news at a presser today touting a questionable redevelopment that's costing this town about $40-million to start.

KEMPER ARENA WILL NOW BE CALLED HY-VEE ARENA BY GOOGLE MAPS AND NOBODY ELSE FOR YEARS!!!

Money line:

“Hy-Vee Arena is a perfect way for us to celebrate our 30 years of service in the metro, and it will be a fitting extension of our brand in the heart of Kansas City,” says Drew Holmes, Hy-Vee senior regional vice president.

As part of the deal, the Hy-Vee name will be displayed inside and outside the building and featured on video boards throughout the arena.

They're putting in basketball courts, a track, a fitness club and some offices in the rehab that's supposed to attract youngsters who want to enjoy the beautiful West Bottoms scenery. They say progress is about 70% complete.

Update links after TKC:

KMBC: Kemper Arena will now be known as “Hy-Vee Arena” after grocery chain purchases naming rights

KCUR: So Long, Kemper: Huge New Kansas City Sports Complex Will Be Hy-Vee Arena

KC Biz Journal: Hy-Vee puts a helpful smile — and its name — on former Kemper Arena

Developing . . .

Comments

  1. It will work.

    If you call getting constant subsidy from Kansas City "working".

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  2. You can take that to the bank and they did5/17/18, 2:40 PM

    No longer owned by the city so I guess the new owners can call it whatever they want.

    I did noticed they didn't reach out and say hey we will rename it after MLK either.

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  3. Hy Hand Job. Where there is a helpful hand job in every aisle.

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  4. Well there goes our opportunity to name the dump the Martin Luther King Jr. Arena. Back to the drawing board (if it must be, I still favor renaming Emmanuel Cleaver II Blvd.).

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  5. ^^^ Ouch. Have to admit you have a point there.

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  6. ^^Ouch, have to admit this blog is nothing more than a despot for complaining geezers. None of you washed up bastards will ever make it down there.

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    1. You will because you probably find it trendy to give reach arounds in the West Bottoms.

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  7. ^^^^^ Why would we want to and see people such as you there?

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  8. ^^^ Ewwwwwwwwwwwww.

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  9. No wonder Hyvee prices are so high, they are sponsoring worthless arenas like the Kemper.

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  10. Hyvee should give all their employees a raise if they have money to throw around like a basketball. How long before there is a shooting in that parking lot ?

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  11. ^^You should really change your diaper, because you're just talking shit now.

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  12. ^^^ And you're waiting with baited breath coprophilia boy.

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  13. Vice Prez of Hy-Vee says:

    Hy-Vee Arena is a perfect way for us to celebrate our 30 years of service in the metro,

    VACANT?

    I am confused.

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  14. ^^You're confused easily because you're old. It's vacant because it's not open yet. Read it again, try to comprehend it. Nobody has any kind of time to help you!

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  15. The only Hy-Vee in KC proper is on 75th N Oak. Jeesh. Get more stores in Kansas City, the actual City in Missouri.

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