John Sherman
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of the, well, we told them about that we were coming to Crown Center a while ago, you know, before they took it to the council.
I don't know that we gave them the exact look.
We told them we're coming to Crown Center.
You know, we're trying to protect Hallmark and their employees from, you know, if something leaked, kind of where they were going.
But this is, it's really right back here.
I think it's, what is it, 25th Street, right?
That would be probably the back of the center field.
That was his idea, but we've been talking for a while.
you know i give i give don a ton of credit and i spoke to a little bit you know somebody a legacy asset like this and as don and i were we were we were talking before we started talking about crown center and uh but when don don really opened up and said
Could we imagine Crown Center?
And that's, you know, that was months ago, probably, and we've spent a lot of time together just thinking through it with some architects and land planners to kind of think about, you know, conceptually what we could do here.
Yeah, the park and the Blue KC.
Well, I think that, look, the ordinance was Washington Square Park, Crown Center area.
And, you know, in listening to our fans, if you look, I probably should have talked about it while the map was up on the screen there.
The architects could have fit something into Washington Square Park, but it had challenges for us as a baseball team.
Brooks can speak to it.
If you think about Minneapolis over a freeway with Grand there, I think it was 11.7 acres total between the Blue Cross building and Washington Square Park.
When you look at this site that we just showed you today, what is it, 15 acres, Brooks?