{"id":508684,"date":"2026-01-06T23:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/508684\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:04:12","slug":"report-kansas-no-longer-seeking-move-by-kansas-city-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/508684\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Kansas no longer seeking move by Kansas City Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state of Kansas is no longer interested in luring the Kansas City Royals away from Missouri, a Topeka television station is reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas House Speaker Dan Hawkins \u201cconfirmed with us that Kansas officials will no longer be pursuing the Royals,\u201d reports KSNT.<\/p>\n<p>Although Kansas in 2024 offered both the Royals and Kansas City Chiefs new stadium financing through the state\u2019s Sales Tax and Revenue STAR bonds program, the Chiefs have <a href=\"https:\/\/heartlandernews.com\/2025\/11\/07\/report-kansas-city-chiefs-seeking-proposals-for-domed-stadium-in-kansas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tentatively agreed<\/a> to the offer while the Royals let the Dec. 31 deadline pass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouse Speaker Hawkins tells us the legislature does not intend on extending that offer,\u201d KSNT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksnt.com\/news\/local-news\/kansas-officials-no-longer-pursuing-new-royals-stadium-in-the-sunflower-state\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>. \u201c\u2019We put an end to it on December 31st,\u2019\u201d Hawkins told the outlet. \u201c\u2019Believe me, I was not kidding when I said that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/breaking-news\/article\/chiefs-announce-move-from-arrowhead-stadium-in-missouri-to-new-3-billion-domed-stadium-in-kansas-211526929.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> their decision Dec. 22 to move to an undisclosed location on the Kansas side by 2031 to a $3 billion domed stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state of Kansas is no longer interested in luring the Kansas City Royals away from Missouri, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252],"class_list":{"0":"post-508684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-kansas","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-royals","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascityroyals","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115850658721464704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}