Royals Stadium Deal: Key Meetings Today

0:00Kansas City's pushing hard to land a Royal Stadium downtown at Washington Square Park, with two key meetings happening today that could set the stage. For the whole deal, at 10.30 a.m., the Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee dives into an ordinance directing the City Manager to negotiate a lease and development agreement with the royals right in the Washington Square Park Crown Center spot. City leaders see this as a game changer to revitalize the downtown area, drawing more fans, jobs and energy to the core of Kansas City after years of. Talks about relocating the team. The ordinance also greenlights chasing state incentives through Missouri's Show Me Sports Investment Act, tax increment financing, and dipping into $250,000 from the Development Services Fund for planning. Then at 2 p.m., the Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners weighs a resolution to lease park land, insisting on at least 30,000 seats. Plus public park space and recommended steps that build solid legal ground

1:03without starting shovels just yet. That's the story for today, Kansas News Today, driven by AI.