Lots of chatter about this locally, of course.
I think the Hunts are well aware that with Mahomes likely having less than 10 years left in his career, that their window to go for this monstrous cash grab was closing rapidly. We on the Missouri side voted it down because the plan was shit. We weren't given a number as to the cost, and estimates were between 3 and 6 billion, which most of us think should be benefiting schools and local services and not a billionaire, and the Chiefs never drew up a community benefits agreement. To add insult to injury here, there's something like seven years left on the lease and several years left to pay off the renovation of Arrowhead that's less than 20 years old.
From where we were sitting, it looked like they just wanted a blank check with no meaningful responsibilities to the locals. And the rubes on the Kansas side gave it to them.
Jackson County spent 60 years making the Hunts rich and they're still unimaginably greedy, so I say good fucking riddance.
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