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Posted on 05/10/2011 1:14:58 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg
The Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission said a stadium in Arden Hills would cost up to $1.2 billion, compared with $895 million at the Metrodome site.
A Minnesota Vikings stadium built at the Arden Hills site could cost as much as $1.2 billion, about $300 million more than a stadium built on the Metrodome site in Minneapolis, according to a cost analysis released Tuesday by the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission.
The report was released just as the Vikings announced they will hold a news conference at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Arden Hills site.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
Two words that will bring the V’s back to greatness: outside stadium.
Ping for the Minnesota list.
Exactly. It’s no coincidence they haven’t been back to the Super Bowl since moving indoors.
No taxpayer money should ever be used for garbage like this.
Not sure who holds the NFL ping list, but ping anyway.
All of these sports owners may rue the day when enough hard-core Lefties get elected and start taking their teams through Eminent Domain, since the taxpayer has largely been funding them anyway.
Probably worth it. But I hate it. I’m sick of pro sports teams holding cities hostage.
“All of these sports owners may rue the day when enough hard-core Lefties get elected and start taking their teams through Eminent Domain, since the taxpayer has largely been funding them anyway.”
Wow would that ever cause mixed feelings in me!
My thoughts are that people both liberal and conservative will line-up to vote in favor of giving hundreds of millions of dollars to a private industry so that they can build a production facility to play football.
And most of the folks voting to pay for a new stadium for private industry are the very same folks who claim that hate Socialism.
Oh, the irony!
Oh, the hypocrisy!
$5 billion structural deficit. Democrat governor, Republican legislature has 2 weeks to decide what to do.
Let’s take a break and talk football.
Anything but that hefty bag covered dome would be an improvement.
Play it outdoors like football was meant to be played...
So all the Vikings need to do now is raise $1.2 billion in private funds to build the stadium.
We are on the brink of economic and societal collapse and....oh look! A football.
Looks like Nassau County, LI, NY is going to set aside $200,000,000 to remodel the NY Islanders’ Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. They’re also going to add a minor league baseball team, apparently.
Didn’t mean to hijack the thread if it seems that way. My allergies are killing me right now and it feels like more of a cold than sneezing every 2 minutes.
They’re also going to add a minor league baseball team, apparently.
Not a problem. At least, not with me :)
Thank you for the reminder :)
One of the proposals to pay for this is for the state to start and run a casino in downtown Mpls.
The State already runs the numbers racket. They want to muscle in on the Indians gambling racket.
A modest proposal: State run prostitution.
Another modest proposal: State sponsored protection racket.
Send a couple of big guys out to 3M headquarters. Tell the CEO, man you have a beautiful building here. I’d be a shame if anything happened to this nice building. Write a check for $50 million and we will guarantee nothing bad will go down here.
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