Opposition to a potential Royals baseball stadium at Overland Park’s Aspiria campus has been so strong among Leawood residents and businesses that the Leawood City Council released a letter Monday night opposing it in no uncertain terms. Councilmembers and Mayor Marc Elkins said they have been flooded with letters from the public against a new stadium for the Kansas City Royals at Aspiria, on the former Sprint campus at 119th and Nall Avenue. The location would put the stadium directly across the street from Leawood. For more than a year now, the Royals have been hunting for a new location for a future ballpark, and the Aspiria campus is one of multiple locations that have been mentioned since Jackson County, Missouri, voters last year rejected a proposal to fund a downtown stadium. The team’s owners have not named a preferred location, but the Overland Park site has officially been in the running since a Royal’s affiliate acquired the mortgage on it in spring 2025. Leawood letter cites concerns of noise, lighting, public safety, transparency, etc.
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