The home of Kansas City’s largest annual barbecue contest is a step closer to building its new stomping grounds in Wyandotte County , and it seems like people are getting excited.
Commissioners for the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, on Thursday by a majority vote approved a $155 million STAR bond deal, the creation of a community improvement district and a finalized development agreement that would all accelerate American Royal’s long-awaited move from the West Bottoms to western Wyandotte.
The UG’s rubber stamp means a higher portion of residents’ sales tax dollars will go toward paying off the American Royal bond debt over the next 20 years. Local sales tax revenues — generated by the project and other properties within the bond district — will now join previously-approved state sales tax revenues in financing the move…