Crossroads group holds stadium meeting with neighborhood leaders [Video]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Dozens of people showed up to a private meeting at New Life CityChurch Tuesday evening, as business owners hoped to learn more about the Royals plans to build their new ballpark in the East Crossroads and move away from Kauffman Stadium.

FOX4 was told some members of Royals leadership were also in attendance.

“The Royals will be my next-door neighbor essentially. I’ll be able to wave at them while they’re playing baseball,” Madison Flitch & Madison Stitch Owner John Pryor said in an interview Tuesday afternoon, before the meeting began.

“I’ll say ‘hi’ to the right fielder.”

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The building his family owns where his businesses are is on 16^th Street, just east of Locust Street. He’s not in the footprint for the Royals new stadium. The team announced last week its preference to build their new ballpark in the East Crossroads, at the site of the old Kansas City Star Press Pavilion.

The boundary of the ballpark would …