Inside Kansas City’s $600 million bet on a downtown Royals ballpark

If everything goes right, new taxes generated by a $1.9 billion ballpark will help pay off a $600 million city loan to help finance the deal. But if it goes wrong, that money could be drained from city services

Kansas City leaders are bidding to retain the Royals at a new downtown stadium two years after Jackson County voters overwhelmingly rejected a sales-tax-funded ballpark in the Crossroads.

Not surprisingly, a familiar fight about taxpayer-subsidized stadiums has roared back to life…

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