Mayor Lucas

But at my core, I say this.

If my friends from the St.

Louis Cardinals fan base, people from Jefferson County, St.

Louis County, St.

Charles, all of that, if they can figure it out,

If they can figure out a way to fill up a stadium sometimes when they're playing well, I'm sure we can too.

And I think that the proximity of the parking at Hallmark and Union Station, which is another 3,000, is going to make it all right.

You know, I can say it now since he's gone, but I know he's a Cardinals guy, but I think that pretty soon here we're going to have, I think, one of the best baseball fan experiences in the country.

Obviously, you have legacy stadiums like Fenway and Wrigley.

I've been blessed to be at both.

Those are really cool experiences.

But when you look at what we are talking about building, this isn't just abandoning a tradition and building some cookie cutter.

This is instead something that I think will be dynamic.

It's interesting that isn't a part of the city that we have poured investment in.

People know Union Station, World War One Museum, Liberty Memorial.

And I think Kansas citizens are going to grow to love it like they love everything else around there.

yeah you know i mean the technicality is that yeah the city will continue to own it is just the way we do sports stadiums in missouri as compared to some other spaces although i think the cheese steel is looking at the same structure that is because of taxes and all of that it's uh highly technical but in its simplest sense the city of kansas city or an agency will own the facility our plan at present is not to create anything like the jackson county sports complex authority or even the i think the new chiefs authority in kansas the city

already owns an arena at T-Mobile Center.

We have a private operator.

CPKC Stadium kind of has a similar relationship.