This can't be true...Kansas City is the smallest market for AEG, and its presence here was prompted by unique circumstances.
Phil Anschutz, the Denver billionaire owner of Anschutz Co., is a University of Kansas alumnus and native of Russell, Kan.
He met former Kansas City Mayor Kay Barnes at KU when he was a bus boy at her sorority house. That acquaintance helped encourage Anschutz’s later interest in backing the Sprint Center.
Small world.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/09/19/3823017/potential-sale-of-aeg-would-not.html#storylink=cpy
