Kansas City leaders unveiled a new downtown ballpark Thursday, introducing an ordinance that frames a $1.9 billion stadium for the Kansas City Royals, according to\u00a0KSHB.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The plan is centered around Washington Square Park, placing the stadium in a key downtown location near the Crown Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The ordinance does not finalize the project, but establishes the framework for “city officials to work with the Kansas City Royals on a series of agreements to build the stadium.”<\/span>\u00a0According to the ordinance, Kansas City would contribute up to $600 million to the project through bonds and other financing sources.<\/p>\n Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas says no new taxes will be implemented and anticipates Missouri will fund up to 50% of stadium costs through the Show-Me Sports Investment Act.\u00a0<\/p>\n The plan includes the stadium to open by Opening Day of 2030, just one year before the Royals’ lease expires at Kauffman Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n Beyond baseball, the development is being framed as a broader economic driver for downtown Kansas City. According to KSHB, Lucas stated, “The project … will deliver tens of thousands of guests to Downtown Kansas City 81 additional nights per year, and will have more than 300 days per year of year-round engagement, tourist activity, and conference, concert, and special event activation.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Still, the proposal remains in its early stages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.komu.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kansas City leaders unveiled a new downtown ballpark Thursday, introducing an ordinance that frames a $1.9 billion stadium for the Kansas City Royals, according to\u00a0KSHB.\u00a0 The plan is centered around Washington Square Park, placing the stadium in a key downtown location near the Crown Center.\u00a0 The ordinance does not finalize the project, but establishes the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2366534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[459938,21848],"class_list":["post-2366533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-prosports","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Kansas-City-leaders-propose-a-new-19B-Royals-stadium.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2366533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2366535,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366533\/revisions\/2366535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2366534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2366533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2366533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2366533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}