The Kansas City Royals are one step closer to building their new stadium. The Royals ownership held its second community listening session Tuesday night taking questions from the audience. The team says it narrowed it down to four or five locations in Kansas City to build the new stadium. People at the community meeting still had a lot of questions about why doesn’t the team ownership pay for the new stadium themselves? “We will be the largest investor in this project,” said Royals chairman and CEO John Sherman, who says the team will invest $1 billion in the stadium. And who will sit at the table? Working families and union members had their own concerns. “Please be patient with us, the CBA deal will depend on our new home,” said Royals Sr. Vice President of Business Operations. The royal estate has told the crowd several times that it hasn’t picked an exact location yet. “I think they’re going to do what’s best for the community. I think you know just to get them involved and be transparent in their efforts. I mean, that’s what it takes. There might be some shifting just depending on where the businesses and the land are.” ,” said Don Gardner, who attended both royal reunions. “This could be good for Kansas City, or bad, it won’t be in between. We have a housing crisis, low wages, violent crime in the city, this new project that we’re talking about could impact real life here,” he said Terrence Wise, a worker leader at Stand Up KC. Sherman says the goal is still to win games of basbeall as the team heads to Arizona in a couple weeks for spring training.
The Kansas City Royals are one step closer to building their new stadium.
The Royal Estate held its second community listening session on Tuesday evening taking questions from the audience.
The team says it narrowed it down to four or five locations in Kansas City to build the new stadium.
People at the community meeting still had a lot of questions like: Why doesn’t the team ownership pay for the new stadium itself?
“We will be the largest investor in this project,” said Royals chairman and CEO John Sherman, who says the team will invest $1 billion in the stadium.
And who will sit at the table? Working families and union members had their own concerns.
“Please be patient with us, the CBA deal will depend on our new home,” said Royals Sr. Vice President of Business Operations.
The royal estate has told the crowd several times that it hasn’t picked an exact location yet.
“I think they’re going to do what’s best for the community. I think you know just to get them involved and be transparent in their efforts. I mean, that’s what it takes. There might be some shifting just depending on where the businesses and the land are.” ,” said Don Gardner, who attended both royal reunions.
“This could be good for Kansas City, or bad, it won’t be in between. We have a housing crisis, low wages, violent crime in the city, this new project that we’re talking about could impact real life here,” he said Terrence Wise, a worker leader at Stand Up KC.
Sherman says the goal is still to win the basbeall games as the team heads to Arizona in a couple weeks for spring training.
