Kansas City Chiefs: Renovating Arrowhead ‘top priority’

KANSAS Town, Mo. — GEHA Subject at Arrowhead Stadium is the household of the Kansas City Chiefs.

Following an offseason of speculation about the probability of relocating the group to another location, and even another state, Chiefs President and CEO Clark Hunt mentioned the organization’s initially option is to keep put.

“Yes, that would be our number a single priority. We’re gonna appraise all selections naturally. We have gotta determine out what is best for the franchise and what is very best for the fanbase, but it begins with evaluating Arrowhead and that is in which we are right now,” Hunt reported Friday at Chiefs Schooling Camp.

A large evaluation of the stadium is underway. It will assess what Arrowhead now has, and a facility the Chiefs will have to have a long time from now.

“What I’ve discovered via the approach is it is not a very very simple reply when you are hoping to make a decision on whether or not a making can go one more 25 or 30 decades starting off in 8 years from now,” Hunt mentioned.

Earlier this spring, Kevin Clark of the Ringer reported Chiefs President Mark Donovan reported the crew had considered possibilities in the condition of Kansas, and experienced been pitched by Kansas developers as it debated what to do about its upcoming household.

Kansas lawmakers even established aside hundreds of thousands in a fund to make a new stadium for a experienced sporting activities workforce.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson claimed the state would contend with any one who tried out to encourage the Chiefs to relocate.

Friday morning at training camp Hunt did not mention previous chatter about the firm thinking about a leap to Kansas, or transferring wherever else.

“We’re pretty hopeful that we will be in a position to renovate Arrowhead when the time arrives. But we’re continue to almost certainly a calendar year-furthermore absent from being in a position to make that perseverance,” Hunt reported.

Hunt and the rest of the organization is alternatively centered on the approaching NFL time.

He is also performing with town leaders and FIFA on upgrading Arrowhead Stadium for the 2026 Globe Cup, which would materialize just before the Chiefs’ lease on the stadium expires in 2031.