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O prefeito de Kansas City, Quinton Lucas, responde a perguntas da m\u00eddia durante uma cerim\u00f4nia anunciando a mudan\u00e7a do Kansas City Royals para o Crown Center na quarta-feira, 22 de abril de 2026, em Kansas City.<\/p>\n

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Inside a ritzy event venue<\/a> overlooking the Kansas City skyline, Royals majority owner John Sherman on Wednesday unveiled plans for a new stadium in Crown Center<\/a>, a celebratory announcement that marked the apex of the team\u2019s yearslong, chaotic hunt for a new home.<\/p>\n

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\u201cToday we open up a new chapter in the history of the Kansas City Royals and a reimagined Crown Center that will be home to the best and most expansive ballpark district in any downtown in America,\u201d Sherman said, sharing a stage with the governor and mayor.<\/p>\n

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Amid the crown-shaped cookies, catchy slogans and Royals banners, however, Wednesday\u2019s announcement left a series of unanswered questions about the team\u2019s plans. Those questions loomed over the event, which was billed as a \u201cBring the Crown Downtown Celebration\u201d featuring various legislative, business and team leaders.<\/p>\n

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Sherman laid out the project\u2019s surface level elements and mock renderings<\/a>. Team officials, partnering with Hallmark Cards and bolstered by state and city funding, want to build a roughly $1.9 billion stadium in Crown Center as part of a more than $3 billion ballpark district.<\/p>\n

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But Sherman\u2019s rollout \u2014 and comments from Gov. Mike Kehoe and Mayor Quinton Lucas \u2014 offered little specifics on the finer points of the plan. State funding is still unclear. Ownership of the stadium wasn\u2019t confirmed. It\u2019s uncertain when city officials learned the stadium would be built in Crown Center instead of Washington Square Park. And none of the speakers mentioned an opening date or clear next steps.<\/p>\n

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Lacing all of those issues is the fact that the city\u2019s role in the project \u2014 a funding package worth up to $600 million \u2014 still has to return to city officials for final approval. Citing the dearth of information, at least one City Council member and frequent skeptic of the plan<\/a> has vowed to slow the whole process down through an amendment added to the city\u2019s incentives package.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are so far away from a done deal,\u201d council member Johnathan Duncan, who represents the 6th District, told The Star on the eve of Wednesday\u2019s announcement, pointing to the lack of a fleshed-out term sheet and broader financial deal between the city and the team.<\/p>\n

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Team, city and state leaders \u2014 who posed for photos with personalized Royals jerseys \u2014 could have used Wednesday\u2019s ceremony to provide more specifics about the plan. But after they exited Crown Center Wednesday afternoon, many of the same questions remained.<\/p>\n

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Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, left, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe, John Sherman, chairman and CEO of the Kansas City Royals, Donald J. Hall Jr., executive chairman and former CEO of Hallmark Cards and Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, laugh while holding Kansas City Royals jerseys during a ceremony announcing the team’s move to Crown Center on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Kansas City. Emily Curiel ecuriel@kcstar.com<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

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Other attendees were more optimistic about the announcement. Council member Wes Rogers, who represents the 2nd District, said he saw the stadium renderings for the first time on Wednesday and framed it as \u201cmaking a good site better.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is, in fact, an even better site than it already was,\u201d Rogers said. \u201cI\u2019m really excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When asked by The Star how much money, exactly, Missouri would contribute to the project, Kehoe was noncommittal, saying that the state\u2019s portion was roughly one-third of the \u201ctotal investment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pressed on the lack of specifics, Kehoe said the state\u2019s contribution would rest on the annual amount of tax revenue the team generates, which he estimated at \u201csomewhere in a $15 to $17 million a year range.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Republican governor, for his part, appeared to acknowledge that the stadium project was not completely a done deal.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA project this big, with a lot of complex kind of parcels and pieces and partnerships, it takes a while to continue to work it out,\u201d he said. \u201cI think it\u2019s safe to say that all entities involved felt we were at a point where we could move forward and that\u2019s what today is about.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Missouri\u2019s contribution will rely on a sweeping incentives package lawmakers approved last summer in an attempt to keep both the Royals and Kansas City Chiefs inside state lines. The law allows Missouri to pay for up to 50% of a new stadium for the team, but the state\u2019s contribution is largely expected to fall short of that percentage.<\/p>\n

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Once city officials apply for state funding, the Missouri Department of Economic Development will determine the state\u2019s contribution based on the amount of withholding tax, sales tax and athlete and entertainer tax revenues generated by the team last year, a Kehoe spokesperson previously told The Star.<\/p>\n

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Another unanswered question centers on the stadium\u2019s actual ownership. Sherman appeared to briefly touch on that issue in a gaggle with reporters, saying that the Royals would purchase property from Hallmark\u2019s development arm and \u201ccontribute it to the city or whatever governmental entity will own it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lucas told reporters that he believed a \u201ccity entity is going to own the stadium.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Over the past two weeks, Lucas and other city officials have referenced a desire to open the new stadium by Opening Day 2030, a timeline that Lucas has acknowledged as aggressive and would put the Royals in Crown Center before their lease expires at Kauffman Stadium in 2031.<\/p>\n

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However, Sherman and Don Hall Jr., the chair of Hallmark\u2019s board, did not reference that date in the announcement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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After the speeches and presentations, Lucas, Kehoe, Sherman and Hall Jr. took questions from a crowd of reporters. In a roughly five-minute gaggle, Lucas said the announcement illustrated a \u201cgreat day for Kansas City.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He listed off a series of outstanding concerns that had been answered, pointing to questions about parking and office development. He touted the overarching collaboration between the Royals and Hallmark as \u201cone of the most robust private development commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But when The Star asked about the stadium\u2019s footprint, the mayor acknowledged that he expected finer details to be shared at a later date.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou know, I think I continue to learn more about what the exact plans are,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that all of this came quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Esta hist\u00f3ria foi publicada originalmente 22 de abril de 2026 \u00e0s 17h07.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Kacen Bayless \u00e9 Democracy Insider do The Kansas City Star, uma posi\u00e7\u00e3o que revela como a pol\u00edtica e o governo afetam as comunidades em toda a extensa \u00e1rea de Kansas City. Antes dessa fun\u00e7\u00e3o, ele cobriu a pol\u00edtica do Missouri para o The Star. Formado pela Universidade de Missouri, ele anteriormente foi rep\u00f3rter investigativo na costa da Carolina do Sul. <\/span>\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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‘Alguns detalhes deste artigo foram extra\u00eddos da seguinte fonte www.kansascity.com’ <\/em><\/p>\n