Royals stadium must-haves, a KC icon reopens & more: 5 KC stories you may have missed
Royals ballpark requirements, a record-setting real estate listing, a KU basketball transfer, a Northland restaurant’s comeback, a Kansas City podcaster confronting terminal cancer.
Here are a few top stories from The Kansas City Star:
Renderings of a Royals stadium must include two fan-favorite features
Royals fans have clear expectations about what a new stadium needs to include: the crown and the water fountains.
Royals CEO and chairman John Sherman said before last month’s home opener that the survey showed fans want the team to remain at Kauffman Stadium. But if the team moves, which is looking increasingly likely, fans expect Kauffman’s legacy to be honored. And Sherman expects any new renderings to reflect that.
“When Populous shows me drawings without those, I say, ‘Earl, you need to put the crown and the fountains back in there,’” Sherman said about conversations with architectural firm Populous’ Earl Santee.
One of KC’s most expensive homes is for sale
A nearly 13,000-square-foot estate in Basehor, Kansas, is on the market for $14.3 million, which listing agent Sage Sotheby’s International Realty says could make it one of the most expensive KC-area homes to hit the market.
Called the Basehor Legacy Estate, 19661 171st St. in Leavenworth County, was built in 2002 and sits behind a private gate on approximately 78 acres. The listing notes an opportunity to expand by an additional 110 acres.
The home features seven bedrooms, seven full bathrooms, four fireplaces, a private movie theater, a state-of-the-art kitchen, an equestrian arena with stables, resort-style grounds with an in-ground pool, multiple barns, a guest house and a four-car attached garage.
KU lands first transfer portal commitment
Former Utah forward Keanu Dawes will transfer to KU basketball, becoming the Jayhawks’ first transfer portal commitment this offseason, his agent Brandon Grier confirmed to The Star on Thursday morning.
The 6-foot-9, 225-pound forward averaged 12.5 points and 8.8 rebounds for Utah last season, started all 32 games he played in and scored 22 points with 12 rebounds when facing the Jayhawks.
Dawes, who previously played a season at Rice, will also go through the NBA Draft process while maintaining his college eligibility, joining a KU roster with seven or eight spots remaining alongside incoming freshmen Taylen Kinney, Davion Adkins, Luke Barnett and Trent Perry.
In-A-Tub reopening after crash
In-A-Tub, a Northland staple since the 1950s known for its deep-fried tacos with neon orange powdered cheese, is celebrating its grand reopening at 8174 NW Prairie View Road this weekend.
In January, a Ford F150 crashed into the restaurant temporarily shutting it down and injuring co-owner Andrea LaMunyon. She was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
“We’re lucky she’s still here,” her husband Kip LaMunyon said. While she continues to recover and isn’t back to full mobility, Andrea is not shying away from working in the restaurant.
“It’ll be nice to be back, a part of the community again,” Andrea said.
‘Dying Out Loud’ and talking about it
Kris Saim is not giving cancer the last word.
The 52-year-old executive and career coach has a lot to say, to his loved ones, friends, people from his past, work colleagues, even strangers. He wrote letters to 74 of them, personal, intimate words of gratitude and farewell that last summer became the basis of a podcast he named “Dying Out Loud.”
He believes that sometimes the most important conversations we can have with one another are the ones we never have, so he’s having them. The podcast centers around Saim reading the letters live to the people he wrote them to, some of whom he hadn’t spoken to in decades. The podcast is on YouTube, Apple and Spotify.
