Rosenblatt and The Omaha Royals
Although the stadium's size was not an issue for the World Series, the high capacity left the Royals struggling to fill it for its regular season games. There had been discussion since 2003 of building a separate venue for the Omaha Royals, which also could have been shared by Creighton University and/or the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Alan Stein, the President and part owner of the Omaha Royals had stated he would be willing to invest $10 million into a new 7,500 seat stadium for the Royals. He said a 30,000 seat CWS stadium downtown with removable seats down to 12,000 would not be a viable alternative. The Royals believed that a smaller, more intimate stadium would double annual attendance up to 500,000 - 600,000. According to Stein, that increase would have been unlikely at either Rosenblatt or a large downtown stadium.
The Royals had named multiple other cities with whom they have discussed stadium relocation, but decided to stay in greater Omaha with the construction of Werner Park.
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