The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum has announce a “Pitch For The Future” campaign to expand, with an estimated $25 million project to build a new NLBM adjacent to the O’Neil Center at 18th and the Paseo. “The vision is essentially build a Negro Leagues campus right there at the corner of 18th and Paseo,” president Bob Kendrick told The Star, “and as I’m calling it, ‘the gateway into historic 18th and Vine,’ to have this magnificent structure welcoming people into the district. And to have it there where the history was made.” He envisions nlbmuseumkc as a must-see, world-class cultural pillar of Kansas City and believes it can become even more dynamic and appealing mere blocks away from its current contained space. Exterior renderings prepared by Pendulum, a Black-owned architectural firm, depict a rooftop pavilion for special events in a building that Kendrick expects will look particularly “cool when it’s lit up at night.” Read more about the vision and campaign at the link in our...