When Travis Kelce signed a four-year, $57 million contract extension with the Chiefs this week, he decided that his first purchase would be something more meaningful than a new car.
Kelce announced that he will be buying a building for his Eighty-Seven & Running Foundation to give inner-city Kansas City teenagers a safe place where they can study science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
“ that will be the future home of the ‘Ignition Lab: Powered by 87 & Running’ – a co-working space where these teens will have the support, resources, and opportunity to explore careers in STEM, launch their own entrepreneurial ventures and gain real-world experience,” Kelce wrote on the foundation’s website.
Kelce was inspired to start the foundation because he saw in his own childhood, growing up in a diverse community in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, that many kids didn’t have the same advantages that he did. When he got to the NFL he was determined to help disadvantaged kids, and his new contract is a means for him to do so.
Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes plan to celebrate Chiefs wins at their Kansas City steakhouse next year, reveals the quarterback
and are planning to make their steakhouse the new party spot for the City Chiefs, the quarterback has revealed.
Last week, the winners announced they were going into business together to launch ‘1587 Prime’ – a modern American steakhouse in Kansas City.
The name comes from their respective jersey numbers at the Chiefs and will open inside the Loews Hotel in early 2025.
That will be in time for the playoffs next season and Mahomes has revealed he is keen for the venue to become a place to celebrate for the team moving forward.
‘Me and Travis been working on it for a while,’ Mahomes said, according to Fox4KC.