A national group of Jewish Community Centers is urging the Royals and elected officials to consider other locations beyond a much-watched Overland Park site for a future ballpark.
In a letter addressed to Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and Lt. Gov. David Toland, who also serves as the Secretary of Commerce and has been involved in state-level negotiations over a new stadium, the JCC Association of North America pushed state officials and the team to “pursue an alternative location for the stadium.”
The letter goes on to say a stadium so close to the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, often referred to as The J, “would be devastating” and could “destabilize a thriving institution” that has been at that site for four decades…