Mayor Lucas

When did this start?

When did you guys come up with this idea, tearing down the headquarters, building a stadium here?

When did it start?

How fast did it come together?

Yes.

Two billion dollars in private investment?

Where else does that investment come from in terms of their investors?

Don, will you be donating the stadium ground to the city and then selling other parts of the property to the Royals?

Can you explain how that'll work?

So with Hallmark's role, will you have naming rights for this new stadium?

You know what?

It's a heck of a day for Kansas City.

I'm pretty excited and hope the Royals get a W today.

But regardless, it's a great time for KC.

Yeah, I mean, I think that what you have seen over recent months, and we haven't been able to talk about all of it, but frankly, exceptional work.

First of all, between the Royals and Hallmark, I think this is transformative just from a business concept.

I mean, if you remove the Royals from the discussion, the fact that Hallmark, a global firm, a brand that everybody knows, is keeping its headquarters in downtown Kansas City is a big deal in and of itself.

You add the Kansas City Royals on, you add to that the reimagining of Crown Center, which is a wonderful place, but it's been there for 50 plus years.

It's always a good time for updating, I think means that it's transformative.

And frankly, I'll go to the fight on the revenues and how we're generating it and fiscal responsibility.