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The Kansas city Royals Baseball team made known their plans for the renovations to Kauffman Stadium last Monday morning. The $250 million dollar project is to start this October and be finished by Opening Day 2010. some new features will include a high definition scoreboard, 39,000 seats, some terraces, wider walkways on all three parts and an outfield walkway that will let the fans to walk around the entire stadium. "We are going to have a brand new stadium," Jackson County legislative chairman Dan Tarwater said earlier this season. Anther addition is a restaurant in right field that could feature local fast food joints. They are approaching a Bar type feel to it and will be a gathering place for fans. Left field will have a Hall of Fame exhibit. The changes will be done in different parts. By Opening Day 2008, new bullpens will be to the sides of the field expanded dugout and crown seating and expanded vomitories -- the tunnel-like passages between the seats and the outside walls -- in the stadium. "We need to do everything in a certain sequence," Uhlich said. Opening Day 2009 will feature several more changes, including an outfield plaza, a walk of fame, an expanded View Level concourse and a food court, new scoreboard and new press facilities. Everything should be finished by Opening Day 2010, with several final touches, including completed areas in the Diamond Club, Crown Club, Stadium Club and home-plate suites installed. "There are going to be areas in the stadium that are going to be touched for all facets of fans, not only the premium areas -- obviously those are necessary for any renovation -- but the fan who is going to come to one game a year," Uhlich said earlier this season. The Royals said they looked at several ballparks for the new design, including Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park, San Diego's PETCO Park and the renovation at Angel Stadium of Anaheim. "The best designs take little pieces from everything," Uhlich said.