A Royals fan since the team’s inception in 1969, Jim Chappell was all in on the team moving to downtown Kansas City. He’s seen stadiums thrive in the urban cores of other cities. And he thinks the same is possible here. Not just a stadium but an entirely new district. Like another Westport or Plaza, he said. “I was 100% for it moving downtown,” he said. But not anymore: “Now I’m 0%.” That’s because Chappell, the founder of North Kansas City’s iconic Chappell’s Restaurant & Sports Museum, is now one of the most vocal advocates of luring the Royals north of the Missouri River — a possibility as the Major League Baseball team narrows its stadium search to two sites. For some time, the Royals have studied building their new stadium in downtown’s East Village, a mostly vacant neighborhood near Kansas City Hall. But team leaders say North Kansas City is also a viable site for their new $1 billion stadium surrounded by a $1 billion ballpark district. Read more about why at the link...