Bipartisan legislative supermajorities OKed the measure to authorize state bonds to help finance new stadiums and practice facilities for both teams on the Kansas side of the metropolitan area of 2.3 million residents, which is split by the border with Missouri. Three Super Bowl victories in five years — and player Travis Kelce’s romance with pop icon Taylor Swift — have made the Chiefs perhaps the area’s most celebrated civic asset.
“We’re excited about what happened here today,” Korb Maxwell, an attorney for the Chiefs who lives on the Kansas side, said at the Statehouse after the bill cleared the Legislature. “This is incredibly real.”by voters on the Missouri side to continue a local sales tax used to finance the upkeep of the teams’ stadiums.
House Commerce Committee Chair Sean Tarwater, a Kansas City-area Republican, said the Chiefs still are likely to spend $500 million to $700 million in private funds on a new stadium.Legislators debated the plan during a one-day special session called by Kelly to have them consider reducing taxes after sheRepublican leaders had promised that the stadium proposal wouldn’t come up until the Legislature first approved a plan to cut income and property taxes byover the next three years.
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