When the ticket orders came in, they built more grandstand before the first race had even run: demand for Kansas Speedway's 2001 debut was so fierce that capacity grew from 75,000 to 82,000 seats during construction. The 1.5-mile tri-oval at 400 Speedway Boulevard in Kansas City, Kansas, opened on 2 June 2001 and remade the western edge of the metro around it. The track was NASCAR's heartland flag-plant: International Speedway Corporation picked Kansas City in the late 1990s to anchor the sport.....

The team took the name of the greatest franchise in Negro Leagues history - and shares its gate money with the museum that keeps that history alive. Legends Field, at 1800 Village West Parkway in Kansas City, Kansas, is the home of the Kansas City Monarchs of the American Association, a 6,537-seat ballpark that has also hosted Major League Soccer and NWSL football. The park opened on 6 June 2003 as CommunityAmerica Ballpark, a 14-million-dollar anchor for the Village West development that would.....

The stadium that rebooted soccer in Kansas City signed the first charitable naming-rights deal in sports before it even opened. Sporting Park - known since 2016 as Children's Mercy Park - at 1 Sporting Way in the Village West district of Kansas City, Kansas, opened on 9 June 2011 with an over-capacity crowd of 19,925 watching Sporting Kansas City draw the Chicago Fire, ending the club's wandering years at Arrowhead Stadium and a minor-league ballpark. The 200-million-dollar Populous design, buil.....