Renowned NFL stadium architect releases images of potential new Chiefs arena - but it would mean Travis Kelce and his teammates leaving iconic Arrowhead for Kansas

Renderings for a new Kansas City Chiefs stadium have been released, but the Kansas state legislature did not put a bill approving bonds for the project up for a vote before adjourning their annual session.

New images from architecture firm Manica showed what a new stadium complex would look like - built in Kansas, just across the river from Arrowhead Stadium located in Missouri.

The project is planned to be built next to the Kansas Speedway and in the same area as the stadiums of Sporting Kansas City of MLS as well as a Minor League Baseball park.

In a statement released to Fox4, Manica said, 'This location offers incredible access to everybody. And the total available parking area will provide an unbelievable tailgating experience that is supplemented by a fantastic mixed-use development.'

But as the hours ticked down on the legislature's session, lawmakers did not bring forth a bill allowing officials to authorize at least $1billion in bonds to cover the whole cost of building this new stadium for the Chiefs and another one for the Kansas City Royals.

New renderings of a proposed stadium for the Kansas City Chiefs have been released

The stadium would be in Kansas, across the river from the Chiefs' current state of Missouri

In addition to a complex for the Chiefs, the project would also involve a baseball stadium

Some critics of the bill derided the plan as corporate welfare. Others were receptive but didn't want to pass the proposal until the Legislature approved a broad package of tax cuts for their constituents that Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly would sign - which didn't happen either.

Legislators' work on a plan began in earnest behind the scenes after voters on the Missouri side of the Kansas City metropolitan area decisively refused earlier this month to extend a local sales tax used to keep up the complex housing the Chiefs' Arrowhead Stadium and the Royals' Kauffman Stadium for more than 50 years.

The bill's biggest champion, Kansas House Commerce Committee Chair Sean Tarwater, a Kansas City-area Republican, said supporters want to give the two professional sports teams another option should they contemplate leaving Kansas City, which he said would be devastating to both states.

'You miss 100% of the shots you don't take,' Tarwater said. 'We need them to stay in the metroplex.'

The idea isn't dead yet.

Kelly and her staff signaled Tuesday that she is likely to veto the last tax package lawmakers approved, cutting income, sales and property taxes by a total of almost $1.5 billion over the next three years. Lawmakers expect Kelly to call a special session of the Legislature to try to get lawmakers to pass a tax plan that she'll accept - and they could consider the stadium financing proposal then.

'We just need a little time on it - we´ll be OK,' said Senate President Ty Masterson, a Wichita Republican. 'I mean, we´re serious about trying to incentivize the Chiefs to come our direction.'

Manica has already built one of the best stadiums in the NFL: the Raiders' Allegiant Stadium

Allegiant Stadium, opened in 2020, has already played host to this past Super Bowl

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson told KSHB-TV in Kansas City on Tuesday that his administration would do everything that it can to keep the Chiefs and Royals in Missouri. His state's lawmakers are in session through May 17.

'We got time to try to work on some ways to try to see what we can do to help with keeping them here, and that's our main goal,' Parson said.

The Kansas proposal would allow the bonds to finance 100% of the construction of each of two new professional sports stadiums with at least 30,000 seats. State and local officials would have a year to sign off, and the teams would be on the hook if local tax revenues weren't enough to pay off the bonds.

'It was just a concern of running it before we gave real tax relief to our constituents - kind of that juxtaposed look of what appears to be corporate welfare before you're getting tax relief to the people,' Masterson said after deciding against having a Senate vote.

Before the local sales tax vote in Missouri, the Chiefs wanted to use their share of the revenues to help pay for an $800 million renovation of Arrowhead. The Royals planned to use their share to help finance a new, $2 billion-plus ballpark district that would be part of a larger nationwide wave of sports construction.

The current lease lease on the two teams' complex lasts through Jan. 31, 2031. Royals owner John Sherman has said the Royals will not play at Kauffman Stadium beyond the 2030 season, the Chiefs are hopeful of remaining at Arrowhead Stadium.

'We'll be in a situation where we go back to the drawing board,' Chiefs owner Clark Hunt told reporters last week. 'I do feel very much a sense of urgency, and we will approach it from a broader perspective going forward.'

Backers argue that the Kansas plan is ideal because the money to pay off the bonds would come from new sales and alcohol taxes generated only when the area around each stadium develops. Also, professional players will have to pay income taxes to Kansas on the portion of their earnings made at the stadiums in Kansas.

But Americans for Prosperity-Kansas, a small-government, low-tax group that has long opposed the use of such bonds, also opposed the stadium financing proposal. The group is influential with Republicans and told lawmakers it would consider their votes in evaluating their records.

Building the project would lead to the Chiefs leaving Kansas City and Arrowhead Stadium

The facility would be build adjacent to the Kansas Speedway and Sporting KC's stadium

Critics have long argued that allowing the bonds to finance big projects represents the state picking economic winners and losers instead of the free market. The same kind of bonds have financed multiple projects, including NASCAR's Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas.

One northeastern Kansas lawmaker, Democratic Sen. Tom Holland, called the stadium proposal 'economic development for millionaires.' He added that it´s 'total foolishness' to have taxpayers subsidize the stadiums - either through taxes they pay when they visit or because the state forgoes revenues that would flow into its coffers.

Another northeastern Kansas lawmaker, conservative GOP Sen. Dennis Pyle, said: 'We´ve got a lot of priorities in Kansas, and I´m not sure that´s one of them.'

Other lawmakers were critical because the Legislature had no public hearings or debates before three senators and three House members met in public this week to hash out the details of the proposal.

'As much as I would love to see the Chiefs and the Royals both come to Kansas, this is a very large expenditure of tax money that merits careful consideration, not a last minute scheme,' said Democratic state Rep. John Carmichael, of Wichita.