KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The city council will have to decide soon on a part of the new stadium project intended for the Royals.
The Missouri Workers Center or Stand-Up KC, has gotten their petition certified, calling for a vote of the people before city funding is committed to it.
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The Royals’ new home is supposed to go up at the northwest corner of 26th and Gillham on the south side of Crown Center. The city council will have about two months to act on the Missouri Workers Center plan, but they’ll likely be working on their own this summer or fall.
In April, Mayor Quinton Lucas introduced a plan to keep the team in the city, but the funding for it hasn’t been approved yet. The council could act on it before residents decide on the Missouri Workers Center one.
“We’re not closing up local government in the intervening time until some point at which either voters pass and approve something or there’s some other action taken,” Lucas said in an interview with FOX4 Tuesday.
The 60-day clock for the council to act on the Missouri Workers Center plan begins Thursday. It will be the first time they’ve met since the petition was certified. FOX4 asked Councilman Crispin Rea if that complicates this stadium process.
“What this is is folks gathering signatures, voicing an opinion,” he responded. “That’s what our system allows and requires, and so, I wouldn’t describe it as a complication so much as just another element of getting this project done that we’ve got to navigate.”
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Rea lives in the ward where the stadium would go, but he was one of two council members to not vote in favor of the preliminary plan in April. He abstained because in the beginning of that month, he thought the stadium was going to go east of Union Stadion and not at Hallmark’s corporate headquarters.
“I had found out an hour before the vote from what was Washington Square Park to the location that we have now all discussed,” he said Tuesday. “Notification and conversations had not included some of the immediate stakeholders like Ronald McDonald House and other folks, and so the conversation that we were able to have after that vote was with the team to go do that engagement and talk to those stakeholders and make sure that they were included and shared all the details, and so that did happen over that following weekend.”
A 60-day deadline to act on the Missouri Workers Center plan would be August 31. The deadline to be on the November ballot though is August 25, meaning a Royals’ ballot initiative may not happen this year.
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Earlier in June, Lucas said it would likely either happen in November of 2026 or April of 2027, questioning whether it would impact the Royals’ stadium project.
Tuesday, FOX4 was also interested in whether the SEA LIFE and Kaleidoscope buildings will have to be torn down with the Royals stadium project.
“Plans are underway, so we don’t have any specifics to share at this point,” a Crown Center spokeswoman responded that day. “That said, one of the primary reasons that Crown Center was selected by the Royals is because of the legacy and purpose of Crown Center; they want to maintain and build upon the history of the complex.”
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