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How much did Sporting Park (Children's Mercy Park) in Kansas City, Kansas cost to build?

Sporting Park, now Children's Mercy Park, in Kansas City, Kansas, is the soccer-specific home of Sporting Kansas City with a capacity of 18,467 per StadiumDB, designed by Populous and built by Turner Construction, with groundbreaking on 20 January 2010 after Wyandotte County approved STAR bonds on 19 January, and opening on 9 June 2011 against the Chicago Fire. The club itself describes it as a USD 200 million stadium, StadiumDB lists USD 200 million, and a search summary says USD 150 million of the project was financed with STAR bonds.

Reported project cost

$200 million

Cost basis: 2011

Children's Mercy Park Aerial, in Kansas City, Kansas
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Basis of the published figure

Reported project cost2011
stadiumdb.com

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Key dimensions

CapacityStadiumDB.com
18,467 seats

Project record

Timeline

  1. 20 January 2010

    Construction started

    Sporting Kansas City
  2. 9 June 2011

    Opened or launched

    Sporting Kansas City

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