KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Just over 200 hundred years after French fur traders landed here via the Missouri River and settled in rough cabins along its banks, Kansas City Current owners Chris and Angie Long with other dignitaries and family arrived Thursday at the Berkley Riverfront by motorboat to embark in earnest on an unprecedented journey of their own.
Near the site that in 1821 commenced the establishment of what would become Kansas City, the Longs and co-owner Brittany Mahomes then broke ground in more ways than one:
Literally as they dug ceremonial shovels of dirt to launch construction on the 11,500-seat, approximately $117 million ultramodern stadium.