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  "path": "/2026/04/17/inside-kansas-citys-600-million-bet-on-a-downtown-royals-ballpark/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-17T11:00:32.000Z",
  "site": "https://missouriindependent.com",
  "tags": [
    "Government + Politics",
    "Kansas City Royals",
    "Quinton Lucas",
    "stadium"
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  "textContent": "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. Kansas City’s Finance Department presented the plan on Tuesday to the Finance, Governance and […]",
  "title": "Inside Kansas City’s $600 million bet on a downtown Royals ballpark"
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