KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City has about a year and a half before the World Cup descends on the metro, where hundreds of thousands of visitors will fill hotel rooms, local roads, and local businesses. While some preparation work will have to happen much closer to the first matches in June, other information is starting to take shape. Security A bipartisan group of Congressional leaders recently asked the federal government for $625 million for security in America’s 11 host cities, including Kansas City. KC2026 CEO Pam Kramer says that will support visible security measures but also work behind the scenes. "Certainly, there will be a visible security presence everywhere but there will be some things that are invisible that are probably best left unsaid," said Kramer. "But I'm confident that they're planning for contingencies." Fans going to the matches at Arrowhead will have a slightly different experience than when they go to Chiefs games. City of Olathe names snowplow after Sporting KC star Daniel Salloi "There will be two security perimeters, so before you get to the ticket scan, your ticket will have been checked, you won't get into the parking lot without a ticket," said Kramer. That extra step is part of FIFA protocol but is also likely to prevent what happened at Copa América matches in Miami over the summer, where fans who didn't have tickets rushed past security and into the stadium. The match was delayed for more than an hour. Fan Fest The Fan Fest site will be located on the southern part of the World War I Museum and Memorial, similar to the setup for the NFL Draft Fan Experience. But, after the Draft, some local businesses told FOX4 they felt left out of the festivities and didn't see the economic boost they were expecting. Kramer says the World Cup Fan Fest will be smaller, with an expanded KC Streetcar line to help move people in and out. The expanded capacity from additional busses and public transit, Kramer says, will help move visitors efficiently. "We'll have 30 days between the beginning of the World Cup and our last match in Kansas City so we can't close Main Street, we can't shut down the KC Streetcar, we need Union Station as a working train station as part of the transportation plan so all of the activation will be on the south side," said Kramer. Transportation The effort to move fans around, Kramer says, will rely on existing regional transit networks that will be supplemented with additional busses that planners are securing now. One added wrinkle is Kansas City has three potential basecamp locations, where teams will stay and practice and where fans will likely spend a considerable amount of time. Compass Minerals National Performance Center in Kansas City, Kansas Rock Chalk Park in Lawrence, Kansas KC Current Training Facility in Riverside, Missouri Those assignments won't be locked in until the end of 2025, giving Kramer and her team six months to finalize the details. "We won't know until December who is playing in the group stage here and who will be base camped here so that will inform our planning in an even bigger way," said Kramer. "We'll know how many fans travel from those countries, what fan behavior looks like, but all of that is factored into the transportation planning and contingency planning around different senarios." Kramer says that puts flexibility at a premium. Lasting Legacy Kramer says Kansas City is in a strong position to thrive even after the games are over. She says there were no structures built just for the World Cup and all the hotel rooms that are needed for 2026 are already built as part of the region's bid. "We're thinking about [the World Cup in Kansas City's legacy] more as capacity building, workforce development," said Kramer. "How do we make sure that we have hospitality workers connected to training so that they have jobs after the World Cup." Sporting KC to start season against Messi, Inter Miami Kramer also says the World Cup could help form new transportation habits for residents that could carry over and benefit from expanded public transit. "If we get people who live here to use the K-10 connector to go to Lawrence for a basecamp activity and then the next year, they go to a KU basketball or football game, and they never otherwise would have considered public transportation but they experienced it, we're really done something here," said Kramer. "If we can increase adoption of public transportation that is moving a needle that would be important." That could also help increase demand for the projects previously considered too ambitious or expensive but that Congressman Emanuel Cleaver says he wishes Kansas City already had. "This would have been a good time if we were on the final leg of a light rail system going to the Kansas City International Airport from downtown Kansas City," said Rep. Cleaver. "I think it's going to happen, I don't think we're going to be able to do it before the World Cup."