Kansas City MSM Pivots Public Toward Downtown Royals Stadium

We love watching local opinion making in action and this time around we notice news "reporting" on "excitement" about downtown stadium ideas despite the fact that voters & taxpayers have been exceptionally hostile toward the idea.

However . . .

Everybody likes picking out news junk that they THINK they won't have to pay for . . . 

Today's example . . .

“I think we’re there today, absolutely,” said Bill Dietrich, CEO of the Downtown Council of Kansas City, citing a baseball stadium’s potential to become an accelerant for new development on top of more than $9 billion in private dollars already invested.

“It’s a very different conversation because you are a much more mature and ready-to-go Downtown. Now, (a ballpark is) an additional amenity in an amenity-rich environment, whereas 15 to 20 years ago, you weren’t.”

For the uninitiated . . . 

This is the classic "missing piece" gambit that developers also used to justify MILLIONS worth of taxpayer cash invested in a downtown convention hotel that now sits mostly empty after COVID has decimated sketchy plans.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com news link . . .

Where would a new downtown Kansas City Royals stadium go? And who would pay for it?

Chatter about the Kansas City Royals moving to a new downtown stadium isn't new. It's been a recurring hope for fans of the team - and of Downtown - for the past 20 years. But it's a whole new ballgame when it comes to the current discussion.