Inside Kansas City’s $600 million bet on a downtown Royals ballpark

By: Josh Merchant

Outlets: Missouri Independent

Published: April 17, 2026

Words: 1,931

Last Updated: 3 months, 2 weeks ago

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Kansas City leaders are bidding to retain the Royals at a new downtown stadium two years after Jackson County voters overwhelmingly rejected a sales-tax-funded ballpark in the Crossroads.

Not surprisingly, a familiar fight about taxpayer-subsidized stadiums has roared back to life.

Kansas City’s Finance Department presented the plan on Tuesday to the Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee, which unanimously advanced an ordinance to the full Kansas City Council.

That ordinance would direct City …

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