Right now we take a peek behind the curtain of the hopes & dreams of a small market franchise that has inflicted years of civic misery on the electorate in order to GARNER TAXPAYER CASH to boost the perennially struggling team.
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The area around Kauffman Stadium, 7.8 miles from downtown Kansas City, has never developed. Location matters. While the Royals haven't declared where they want to go, they have been clear about what they want.
"The Battery is the best example in our minds," R. Brooks Sherman Jr., the Royals' president of business operations (no relation to John Sherman), said. "But you look around the league and you've seen all these [examples]. San Diego, what it did for the Gaslamp [Quarter)] there. Washington, D.C., Colorado are great. We want to be additive to wherever we go. We want the live, work and play environment."
The live, work and play dynamic. Those other venues have that but in different settings, from the urban core (San Diego, Denver) to a rehabilitated blue-collar district (Washington) to the suburbs (Atlanta).
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