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After weeks of anticipation and hours of public input, the Olathe City Council unanimously voted to contribute local sales tax revenue to help pay for a new Chiefs headquarters and training facility in town. “At the end of the day, I’m excited the Chiefs will stay in the metro area,” Mayor John Bacon said at the end of the meeting on Tuesday night. “A lot of benefits have come (to) Olathe, in my time I’ve served on council, from tax incentives to try and bring businesses, jobs. So as far as this particular project … it’s a fairly easy decision tonight.” The City Council’s unanimous decision will allow the city to direct local, incremental sales and use tax revenues from a 165-acre site on the northwest corner of College Boulevard and Ridgeview Road, just south of Kansas Highway 10, for 30 years, to help finance the team’s new facilities in Kansas. Despite several residents’ skepticism about Olathe committing local tax revenue to the Chiefs — in part due to the wealth of the team’s billionaire owner Clark Hunt — the City Council felt that this would help develop an area that has otherwise sat untouched. Olathe’s approval marks the first step toward Kansas’ goal of bringing the Chiefs to the Sunflower state after state and team officials announced in December their near-$4 billion plan to build a new domed stadium in Wyandotte County and state-of-the-art training facility and headquarters in Olathe. Read more at the link above. #OlatheKS #Chiefs #KansasCity #KansasCityChiefs #Olathe 📸: Tammy Ljungblad/The Star (@kctammy)
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