Update: The Royals and Hallmark Cards announced Wednesday morning that they will be working together on a project to bring a ballpark and other development to Crown Center. Further details about where exactly the stadium would be and what redevelopment would look like were not immediately available.
Details remain scarce, but Crown Center could see redevelopment if plans move forward to bring a new Royals stadium into an area that was itself built to renew a distressed neighborhood.
Crown Center’s architecture, layout and very existence are so distinctive — as a planned, mixed-use district with modern buildings surrounding a public plaza — that the area is listed on the National Register of Historic Places…