The Royals’ ongoing search for a new baseball stadium has “returned to an old location,” and it “invokes a familiar phrase: In or around downtown.” Sources mentioned that the Royals have “evaluated the possibility of a stadium and surrounding ballpark district in North Kansas City -- Clay County.” It is unclear when they renewed their interest in a site north of the river -- or to “what degree they’re actually considering it now.” But sources said that the Royals have “talked with the Merriman family,” which controls a site encompassing nearly 100 acres in North K.C. Whether anything new comes of those talks remains to be seen. The Royals announced the North K.C. site as a finalist for their ballpark project back in August 2023, months before they “reversed course and put a Crossroads District location on the ballot instead” (K.C. STAR, 4/16).
Royals reevaluating North K.C. site for ballpark
