The Kansas City Chiefs threatened to leave Kansas City unless a vote passed to enact a sales tax to help fund renovations of Arrowhead Stadium. And in a pretty brutal turn of events for the team and their fans, it sounds like their future in Kansas City may be in question after the vote failed.
On Tuesday evening, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas announced on social media that the people of Kansas City had voted against the sales tax to fund the stadium renovations.
“The people of Kansas City and Jackson County love the Chiefs and the Royals. Today, they rejected plans and processes they found inadequate,” Lucas said in a post on X, the social media website that was formerly known as Twitter.
Over the months ahead, I look forward to working with the Chiefs and Royals to build a stronger, more open, and collaborative process that will ensure the teams, their events and investments remain in Kansas City for generations to come.
— Mayor Q (@QuintonLucasKC) April 3, 2024
“Over the months ahead, I look forward to working with the Chiefs and Royals to build a stronger, more open, and collaborative process that will ensure the teams, their events and investments remain in Kansas City for generations to come,” Lucas said in a follow-up post.
Obviously, this puts the Chiefs in a pretty horrible situation going forward as they will now have to decide whether or not to remain in Kansas City even though they will not have public funding for their stadium renovations.
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