Earl Santee

Crown Vision will be here, but in a bigger and better way, and you'll see, you'll see some of that here in a minute.

20 minutes after Sherman said that, Populous founder, Earl Santee, started showing renderings of the stadium.

The fountains will be in center field.

The Crown Vision moves from center field, where it is now, to behind the right field wall.

Remember how we said we were hoping for transparency and a little more information in the process with both new stadiums that are going to go up? We are expecting some of that in a news conference that was supposed to start five minutes ago, I'm just saying.

But the Royals president of real estate and development, Brooke Sherman, and Populous senior principal and founder, Earl Santee, are doing a news conference any minute now.

They're just kind of mulling around.

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The firm established modern urban ballpark design in the early 90s with the iconic Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

And since then, Populous has worked with 29 of the 30 Major League Baseball clubs.

Not only do we get Populous, the firm, we're fortunate that the design of our new ballpark is led by Earl Santee, one of the most widely acclaimed sports designers in the world.

we quickly came to understand that Earl is the godfather of ballparks.