{"id":2373532,"date":"2026-04-14T22:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2373532"},"modified":"2026-04-14T22:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:43:14","slug":"royals-closer-to-1-9b-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-closer-to-1-9b-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals Closer to $1.9B Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The prospect of a new Royals ballpark in downtown Kansas City took a big step forward Tuesday as two different municipal boards advanced plans for a proposed $1.9 billion facility.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The lengthy pursuit of the venue\u2014with many twists and turns over the past several years\u2014saw new and critical assent for a stadium at Washington Square Park, near Kansas City\u2019s Crown Center and Union Station. The day\u2019s developments included:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The city council\u2019s Finance, Governance, and Public Safety Committee unanimously approved a measure to continue stadium funding negotiations with the Royals. The panel referred the measure to the full city council, and a vote there could happen as soon as Thursday. The current plan being negotiated calls for up to $600 million in city funding, backed by tax revenue generated at the stadium and a surrounding mixed-use development. The approval, however, arrived after nearly three hours of sometimes-heated testimony from citizens opposing the potential public-sector outlay. That throng filled the city council chambers to standing-room levels.<\/li>\n<li>Kansas City\u2019s Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners similarly approved a resolution that authorizes the city manager to complete a lease agreement for the Royals at Washington Square Park. That move happened after the board briefly moved into executive session to discuss details around the resolution.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s an important part of what the end transaction is,\u201d said Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas of the citizen pushback to the stadium plan. \u201cFrankly, I think that gives us even more potential community benefit long term. \u2026 This isn\u2019t money that\u2019s coming from a general-fund source somewhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A New Urgency<\/h3>\n<p>The Royals and owner John Sherman have actively pursued a new ballpark since soon after he acquired the club in 2019. That effort took a significant step backward two years ago after Jackson County, Mo., voters <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/kansas-city-stadium-plans-in-doubt-after-voters-reject-tax-measure\/\">soundly rejected a proposal<\/a> to use local sales tax funds to help finance a downtown facility.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The search, however, has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/chiefs-new-stadium-site-is-set-now-its-royals-turn\/\">taken on a very different energy<\/a> since the Chiefs, the Royals\u2019 current neighbor in the Truman Sports Complex, struck a deal in December to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/chiefs-to-build-new-3-billion-stadium-in-kansas\/\">build a new stadium and separate complex in Kansas<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That forthcoming move by the NFL team helped galvanize local leaders in Missouri to prevent a similar shift by the Royals, and also led to a retooled ballpark financing plan that is far more focused on the stadium site itself. A parallel effort also remains in development to secure state funding for the project.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got elected to keep things moving, and this was a vital step,\u201d Lucas said after the committee vote Tuesday. \u201cWhat you see today is a firm step that the Royals will continue to be in Kansas City, Missouri, for the long term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sherman similarly said in February regarding the stadium deliberations that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/royals-near-ballpark-decision-as-owner-warns-time-not-our-friend\/\">\u201cit\u2019s time to get on with it<\/a>. I know our fans have stadium fatigue, or deal fatigue, and we\u2019ve got that, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"didomi\/javascript\" data-vendor=\"facebookc-KTWfawWc\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '434369970473336');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\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 frontofficesports.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prospect of a new Royals ballpark in downtown Kansas City took a big step forward Tuesday as two different municipal boards advanced plans for a proposed $1.9 billion facility.\u00a0 The lengthy pursuit of the venue\u2014with many twists and turns over the past several years\u2014saw new and critical assent for a stadium at Washington Square [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2373533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2373532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Royals-Closer-to-19B-Stadium.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373532","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=2373532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373534,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373532\/revisions\/2373534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2373533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}