{"id":2225109,"date":"2026-01-07T01:31:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2225109"},"modified":"2026-01-07T01:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:31:20","slug":"report-kansas-no-longer-seeking-move-by-kansas-city-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/report-kansas-no-longer-seeking-move-by-kansas-city-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Kansas no longer seeking move by Kansas City Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The state of Kansas is no longer interested in luring the Kansas City Royals away from Missouri, a Topeka television station is reporting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kansas House Speaker Dan Hawkins \u201cconfirmed with us that Kansas officials will no longer be pursuing the Royals,\u201d reports KSNT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although Kansas in 2024 offered both the Royals and Kansas City Chiefs new stadium financing through the state\u2019s Sales Tax and Revenue STAR bonds program, the Chiefs have <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/heartlandernews.com\/2025\/11\/07\/report-kansas-city-chiefs-seeking-proposals-for-domed-stadium-in-kansas\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tentatively agreed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the offer while the Royals let the Dec. 31 deadline pass.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHouse Speaker Hawkins tells us the legislature does not intend on extending that offer,\u201d KSNT <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksnt.com\/news\/local-news\/kansas-officials-no-longer-pursuing-new-royals-stadium-in-the-sunflower-state\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201c\u2019We put an end to it on December 31st,\u2019\u201d Hawkins told the outlet. \u201c\u2019Believe me, I was not kidding when I said that.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chiefs <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/breaking-news\/article\/chiefs-announce-move-from-arrowhead-stadium-in-missouri-to-new-3-billion-domed-stadium-in-kansas-211526929.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">announced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> their decision Dec. 22 to move to an undisclosed location on the Kansas side by 2031 to a $3 billion domed stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source heartlandernews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of Kansas is no longer interested in luring the Kansas City Royals away from Missouri, a Topeka television station is reporting. Kansas House Speaker Dan Hawkins \u201cconfirmed with us that Kansas officials will no longer be pursuing the Royals,\u201d reports KSNT. 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