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April 14, 2026

Officials trying to keep MLB's Royals in Missouri

  • The plan comes months after Kansas lured Chiefs over the state line with a massive stadium subsidy.
    • By JOHN HANNA
    Associated Press

    Kansas City, Missouri, would issue $600 million in bonds for a new downtown stadium for Major League Baseball's Royals under a proposal officials are pursuing months after Kansas lured professional football's Chiefs over the state line with a massive stadium subsidy.

    Mayor Quinton Lucas and nine of 12 City Council members introduced a proposed ordinance Thursday to allow the city manager to negotiate with the Royals over a new stadium near the city's historic Union Station and its World War I museum, about 6 miles northwest of the Royals' current Kauffman Stadium.


     
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