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🏟️ STADIUM ACCESS: Getting to the Royals’ planned downtown stadium will look a lot different than driving to The K.

📍 WHY IT MATTERS: Leaders want fans to “come early and stay late,” using multiple ways to get to a stadium they hope will blend into the fabric of the neighborhood.

🚗 YES, BUT: A first-phase traffic study estimates around two-thirds of fans will drive to weeknight games. Fewer than one in five are expected to walk, bike or take transit.

🧢 BY THE NUMBERS: The team says the Crown Center move will bring around 2 million fans downtown each year.

⚾️ THE FUTURE OF ROYALS BASEBALL IS TAKING SHAPE!

The Kansas City Royals and Populous just unveiled six new renderings of their proposed downtown ballpark at Crown Center, and there are some pretty incredible details.

The stadium will be built into Crown Center’s natural limestone slope, with breathtaking views of the downtown skyline, a new CrownVision scoreboard, fountains, and a canopy designed to shade approximately 65% of seats during late-afternoon games.

A new era of Royals baseball is taking shape in Kansas City! ⚾️

The @kcroyals and @wearepopulous unveiled SIX new renderings of the team’s future downtown ballpark at Crown Center, expected to open in 2030.

Ahead of today’s reveal, I spoke with Royals President of Real Estate and Development Brooks Sherman about the vision for the project and what fans can expect.

As the Royals are announcing new details for the future downtown ballpark, the neighborhoods nearby are looking forward to the impact it’ll have on the surrounding communities.

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“Cities are gonna get so much more out of it than that. There’s much more value to it.”