Chiefs announce news conference on planned Arrowhead renovations

[srvy]

https://fox4kc.com/sports/chiefs/chi...mo-link-block1

Maybe worth checking out Wednesday morning. If your not local I'd assume Chiefs.com will have it on the website.

This will have major implications for the April vote on extending the sales tax that will help fund Renovations at One Arrowhead Drive and even more to get Shyster Sherman his downtown ballpark.

[BWillie]

At least pump some money into improving the illustrious Taco Bell

[Titty Meat]

Originally Posted by DaFace

Concrete is way more technical than people understand, so that seems believable to me. Shitty concrete from the 90s added hundreds of millions of dollars in costs and multiple years of delays to the Denver airport's terminal renovations.

We know it's not true
https://www.kmbc.com/article/enginee...ficiencies.%22

[BWillie]

I no longer want the Royals to move. I just assumed if they were to stay they would develop the area.

[KCUnited]

Who’s paying to demolish the K?

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by BWillie

I no longer want the Royals to move. I just assumed if they were to stay they would develop the area.

It’s a ****ing wasteland of nothingness 15 minutes away from P&L

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

It’s a ****ing wasteland of nothingness 15 minutes away from P&L

Move the Chiefs to where Kemper/Hy-Vee Arena is and develop that area

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Move the Chiefs to where Kemper/Hy-Vee Arena is and develop that area

Another wasteland

There’s only so many hayseeds that can support an entertainment district

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

Another wasteland

There’s only so many hayseeds that can support an entertainment district

It is a wasteland but at least it's near downtown and centrally located. If you revitalize that area it at least means something for the city. Also when Chiefs aren't playing people can easily get down there via Uber/Lyft and you could expand the streetcar to that area.

[-King-]

Originally Posted by ChiefsFanatic

This is the most underwhelming, disappointing shit. I honestly think Clark Hunt should be embarrassed that this is what his team came up with for $800 million dollars.

I am being serious when I say a college architectural design class at a community college could have made something better as part of a midterm project.

I don't know why, but I feel pissed off. $800 million for this shit?

Clark Hunt is a smart team owner and businessman. However, his attachment to Arrowhead is now becoming a huge flaw. I wouldn't even vote for this shit if it somehow included a roof for the stadium.

I'm just mad that these seem like normal upgrades that he should have been able to afford himself. At least that would have bought him some good will with the fans. If you're going to ask people to give 60% of the funding, at least make it cool and exciting.

[tk13]

Originally Posted by excessive

There was an implied threat by Clark. If the vote doesn't pass, they have contingency plans in place, which includes not signing a new lease when the current one is up. On second thought, maybe that was a direct threat.

I think that's exactly what will happen. It's why the Chiefs threw themselves in the ring and leaked whatever they leaked to Sam McDowell to write that article a couple months ago when it looked like Frank White was going to torpedo the whole thing. If this doesn't pass you have to imagine Kansas will try and draw the teams away.

[BigRedChief]

VIP access road to be built to the new parking deck next to the stadium. How rich do you have to be to use that?

[srvy]

Originally Posted by -King-

I'm just mad that these seem like normal upgrades that he should have been able to afford himself. At least that would have bought him some good will with the fans. If you're going to ask people to give 60% of the funding, at least make it cool and exciting.

Its not his stadium he signed a lease. Would you pour money into a home that you rent?

[Strongside]

Not gonna lie…this is super ****ing lame. The last round of renovations (also promised as a facelift that would last a generation) felt like a significant improvement. That was only 2010.

This feels like spending almost a billion dollars on parking and some stupid ass seats no fans who care about the actual game would ever want. You can’t see shit from field level.

I very much feel like the chiefs shook hands with the Royals on this as a good faith thing to make it look like they were being good neighbors, but that the chiefs preference would be a standalone deal for a new stadium.

They phoned this the **** in.

[-King-]

Originally Posted by Strongside

Not gonna lie…this is super ****ing lame. The last round of renovations (also promised as a facelift that would last a generation) felt like a significant improvement. That was only 2010.

This feels like spending almost a billion dollars on parking and some stupid ass seats no fans who care about the actual game would ever want. You can’t see shit from field level.

I very much feel like the chiefs shook hands with the Royals on this as a good faith thing to make it look like they were being good neighbors, but that the chiefs preference would be a standalone deal for a new stadium.

They phoned this the **** in.

I doubt the royals are happy with this either. This did nothing to help the vote.

[Eleazar]

Personally I would rather the Chiefs had come with a much larger proposal for an entirely new stadium than a proposal to spend this amount of money on stuff that seems pretty unimpressive.