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- Voters rejected a 2024 tax for Royals and Chiefs stadiums, torpedoing the downtown plan.
- Developer social posts and fan renderings imagine look of Washington Square Park ballpark.
- KC officials planned to introduce a proposal to pursue a Washington Square Park stadium.
Voters rejected a tax for Royals and Chiefs stadiums in 2024, and that torpedoed a potential downtown baseball stadium at the site of the old Kansas City Star printing press.
A few months later, there was talk of a stadium possibly being built at Washington Square Park. It has remained a favored location among fans who want a downtown stadium.
And those fans got a boost in February when a developer said on social media that it appeared a stadium at that location was coming.
Another big step arrived Thursday with news that key Kansas City officials planned to introduce a funding plan Thursday for a ballpark at Washington Square Park.
Over the past 20 months, a number of renderings of a stadium at Washington Square Park have been shared on social media or publicly.
Josh Chavis, a Royals fan who is a creative director at VML, made this video of a possible stadium.
In August 2024, Vince Bryant, the founder/CEO of 3D Development shared these renderings.
And here are some other visuals fans have shared of a potential Royals ballpark at Washington Square Park.
This story was originally published April 9, 2026 at 1:18 PM.
The Kansas City Star
From covering the World Series to the World Cup, Pete Grathoff has done a little bit of everything since joining The Kansas City Star in 1997.
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