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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
He's not wrong.
The real 'bad guys' in all this are the folks that ran the county and business leaders in/around Independence. I mean it's not like the Legends sprang up from some hotbed of economic activity. Folks grabbed the wheel and made it happen.
Jackson County just never proactively worked towards developing that area. When the city was growing, it grew north and west. But it didn't HAVE to be that way. And the Truman complex was a natural focal point to create some gravitational pull and bring that growth that direction.
City/county leaders simply failed. For decades. And now there's likely to be a reckoning.
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Those stadiums have out lasted many from their time at the location. The whole reason they were able to come here in the first place was because of the cheap land.
If anything blame the Royals for staying during the downtown renaissance or repeatedly blowing through deadlines on this project. Hell they put out 2 renderings, one up north the other in the east village. Then a month before the freakin election they announce the Crossroads, Change the announcement that they will keep Oak St open when early voting already started, Some group that was pro "Yes" sending out a mailer to a county that's probably 60% Democrat saying how the left wants to take away your stadiums, and on the day of the election come to an agreement with the Crossroads community.
Axiom Strategies should be fired into the sun