The Royals announced last fall they would seek a new downtown stadium with a surrounding ballpark district, and since then they have studied 14 sites in the urban core as a potential location. Two of these sites are north of the river in the city of North Kansas City, in Clay County. Today, North Kansas…

North Kansas City has emerged as the backup for a proposed Royals ballpark should a deal strike out at the East Village downtown site, according to sources familiar with both locations.

A Kansas City committee has unanimously passed a plan to sell a local developer land that could one day become the Royals new stadium.

Last fall, the Kansas City Business Journal reported that more than 150 acres of industrial, office and commercial properties had traded hands in one of North Kansas City’s largest investment sales in some time.

A Kansas City committee on Wednesday started reviewing a measure that would authorize the city’s sale of 5.7 acres in the East Village to VanTrust Real Estate.