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Kansas City's grandiose dreams began to diminish in the 1980s as TWA and the major league hockey and basketball teams left and the NCAA no longer played its Final Four games in the city. The Kansas City Scouts were unable to create the same National Hockey League buzz as the St. Louis Blues and they departed in 1976 to become the Colorado Rockies (which in turn became the New Jersey Devils in 1982). In 1986, the Kansas City Kings left town to become the Sacramento Kings. Kansas City began to settle into the fact that it is one of the smallest markets of major league teams ranking #31 according to its television market. The era from 1980 to the present has been marked by substantial bond issues by the city to protect its past such as Union Station and Liberty Memorial as well as to make major improvements to the airport and sports complex. Kansas City is now experiencing the biggest building boom in downtown since the Pendergast era.
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