A hopeful statement about local baseball history and recent decisions . . . Here's the word from one of Kansas City's very best entertainers & entrepreneurs . . .
"The moment also sharpened a harder thought for me: if Kansas City were really serious about baseball, 18th & Vine would have been the site. If Kansas City were really serious about jazz, 18th & Vine would have been the site. If Kansas City were really serious about using a generational project to bring together both sides of a strategically and government-funded divided city, 18th & Vine would have been the site.
"There is no other place in Kansas City where baseball history, Black history, and the city’s most internationally legible cultural identity sit so clearly on top of one another."
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Royals chose Crown Center; KC now must decide how 18th & Vine stays in the game
The Royals ballpark announcement was still eye-opening, because moments like this reveal what a city is actually willing to organize itself around, writes Kemet Coleman.
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