I'm resigned to the fact the K is on its farewell tour, but no Crown Vision or fountains? That's just straight booty.
Downtown Royals Stadium
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This is exactly right. The way the Twins have reconfigured Target Field since it opened is a great example. They've traded seating for bar/lounge areas and it provides a lot to do besides watching the game. Now when we go up there we'll buy the cheapest tickets available and just bar hop inside the stadium. If we have seats, we may not even visit them once. It provides a fun bit of variety.
That said, these shorter games will make it tougher to get your money's worth out of that. Feels like some of the value of attending a game was stripped away.
Early concepts to be sure, but I can't believe they won't have some of that in the final design.
90,000 daily commuters post pandemic? I'm gonna have to disagree on that. Minneapolis and St Paul combined don't have that many. Most people work remote now.
Hey now, this would remove a really cool Airbnb I stayed at last year for a bachelor party
Yeah...I like that too! My boys and I did a lap...that is a neat feature of the current state of the K!
Still? I think the majority have gone back to the office full or at least part time at this point.
KidSilverhair
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I get your point of view - you enjoy the socializing/bar-hopping aspect of going to the stadium - but the new rules make the game so much more fun to watch.
Just get inside when the gates open and start enjoying the bars. You’ll still get your money‘s worth out of a 2 hour & 40 minute game.
That spot is a pipe dream and no even remotely viable. There aren't enough arteries/exits getting into DT, especially from the south (where a lot of the fans will be coming from). The only place to put more parking would be to the east, which would likely increase the clusterfuck known as highway 71. And having it next to the arena would be ******* bonkers. DT is slammed in the summer when there are concerts, First Fridays, etc going on.
The best place for it would have been on the north side of the river. They could have done the street car extension w/a pedestrian bridge which would increase parking options and alleviate some of the choke points. It also adds room for development, something the other plan doesn't really have.
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The last 3 years the Royals are pretty far below the average payroll/revenue in MLB.
They'll get a bump in revenue when they move downtown, because that always happens when new stadiums are built. However, there is zero evidence in most cases that those additional revenues are put into player salaries.
Did the new Yankee Stadium disincentivize the Yankees?
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Research shows sports stadiums generate little new economic acivity.
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Yeah right now it looks like a generic stadium generated when you start a new one in franchise mode on MLB the Show.
The worst kept secret is that it will go where JE Dunn owns land. The other sites are mostly smokescreen to make it look like they are exploring options, but with the Dunn family involved in the ownership group, you can bet the scale is getting heavily tilted in that direction.
Pretty sure their main facility is in the east village, and that has been the area most talked about getting the new stadium
I'm assuming the area to the east of their office building, that looks to be parking lots?
Overall, baseball would generate far more fans if they had a salary cap.