Vote Yes on Question 1
VOTE YES on April 2nd to keep the Chiefs and Royals in Jackson County!
Voting yes means more than a billion dollars of private investment, creating thousands of new jobs, helping small businesses, and a better deal for our community – all with NO NEW TAXES!
Voting Yes Provides Significant Benefits to Jackson County
A Reimagined Arrowhead & New Royals Stadium for the Next Generation
Let’s keep the momentum going! We are in a Golden Era of sports in Kansas City. Voting YES on April 2nd will continue the partnership between Jackson County and the Kansas City Chiefs and Kansas City Royals, keeping both teams in Jackson County for the next 50 years. Combined both teams will contribute over $1 billion dollars in private funds and the stadiums will create over 5,000 construction jobs over the next 5-7 years.
A Reimagined Arrowhead
A Downtown Neighborhood Ballpark
Listening Sessions
Please join us and invite your employees to attend one of the following listening sessions to hear from the Chiefs and Royals’ leadership on the future of their teams in Jackson County. Geared toward registered Jackson County voters, these listening sessions will focus on how the Chiefs and Royals will use the extension of the 3/8-cent sales tax to ensure their future success in the KC region. Space is limited, so please register to only one listening session.
In-Person | Session #1
Monday, March 11
2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
KC Chamber Board Room | Union Station
In-Person | Session #2
Monday, March 18
2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
North Club at GEHA Field | Arrowhead Stadium
Virtual-Only | Session #1
Tuesday, March 26
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Virtual-Only | Session #2
Tuesday, March 26
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Endorsements
Downtown Neighborhood Ballpark
The Crossroads site offers an unrivaled opportunity to improve the ballpark’s accessibility and connection to surrounding neighborhoods as well as the entire region. It is located in the economic center of our region and provides a thriving, sustainable environment for major league sports to evolve and prosper. The Crossroads site will ensure success for the Royals as their new home and offer the Chiefs the opportunity to expand their facilities at the Truman Sports Complex – both teams would remain in Jackson County for generations to come.
Accessibility & Connectivity
Downtown Kansas City is home to more than 40,000 parking spaces and 9,000 spots within a 10-minute walk of the proposed stadium. In addition, the Crossroads site is only a few blocks away from the fare-free KC Streetcar that will run from the Riverfront to UMKC. Downtown is a transit hub for our city with 33 existing bus routes connecting our district to east and west side neighborhoods as well as suburbs throughout our region. In addition, Downtown’s Greenline, a 10-mile pedestrian trail, will connect surrounding neighborhoods to the stadium. For the hundreds of thousands of residents living near these various transit options, driving and parking costs would no longer be a factor, and transportation to the game would require very minimal or no cost at all.
Building On Community Investment
Before us stands a unique opportunity to correct past wrongs of misplacing critical community assets in isolation of other key amenities and neighborhoods. A new ballpark district in the Crossroads would integrate seamlessly with surrounding neighborhoods and activity centers. The Crossroads site will build upon $10 billion dollars of community investment in Downtown over the past two decades. A new home for the Royals in Downtown Kansas City will have great synergy with other catalytic projects within walking distance of the new district. Together, these amenities will mutually support each other and exponentially add to the economic impact of the region.
Pedestrian Vitality & Vibrant Environment
The new ballpark would no longer stand alone, separated from communities and amenities but placed in Downtown Kansas City, the region’s unrivaled center for social and pedestrian activity. Downtown Kansas City averages more than 182,000 daily visitors, employees, and residents. Downtown is the region’s largest employment center blended with the fastest-growing residential neighborhood in the metropolitan area. The constant flow of visitors through Downtown will overwhelmingly support the game day atmosphere as well as the district’s office, residential, and retail uses throughout the year.
Downtown Council of Kansas City
1000 Walnut, Suite 200
Kansas City, MO 64106
816.421.1539