Royals unveil plans for ballpark in downtown Kansas City - ESPN

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals intend to build their new downtown ballpark blocks away from T-Mobile Center and the Power & Light District, scrapping two concepts elsewhere in the city for a location that puts the stadium closer to existing entertainment areas.

The Royals revealed plans for the $2 billion-plus ballpark project Tuesday at Kauffman Stadium, two days after the Kansas City Chiefs — whose Arrowhead Stadium shares the Truman Complex with their existing ballpark — won their third Super Bowl in the past five years, and one day before the city celebrates another Lombardi Trophy with a parade downtown.

«This is going to be awesome!!! Can't wait!» Chiefs quarterback and Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes wrote on X in response to renderings of the new Royals ballpark.

The parade route Wednesday travels along Grand Avenue to Union Station, or directly past the location of the new ballpark.

«We're the second-smallest city with both an NFL franchise and Major League Baseball club,» Royals owner John Sherman said, «and we want to sustain ourselves as a major league city. We want these franchises to thrive here for another 50 years.»

The new ballpark — located in «the heart of Kansas City,» per an X post from the team — will seat about 34,000 fans, or roughly 3,000 fewer than Kauffman Stadium, and the Royals are hopeful it would be ready for the 2028 season. The final design is still under development, but renderings shown Tuesday paid homage to the K's swooping roof lines and iconic center-field fountains.

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«The ballpark will have a really great feeling of intimacy,» Sherman said.

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