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Stadium Watch Blog

Vikings stadium funding fix could include electronic Keno, poker, from state lottery

Vikings stadium funding fix could include electronic Keno, poker, from state lottery

Listen: MPR’s Tim Nelson reports on the proposed funding fix It’ll likely be months before the Dayton administration decides whether to turn to the backup plans built into the Vikings stadium bill last year. The options include a 10 percent suite tax at the new stadium and “games based on stadium or professional sports themes”…
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Should Minnesota wait for Vikings stadium until it knows it can pay for it?

Should Minnesota wait for Vikings stadium until it knows it can pay for it?

The chief critic of the Vikings stadium financing plan, state Sen. Sean Nienow (R-Cambridge) says the state ought to wait for its stadium dessert until after the fiscal broccoli. Nienow says he’s introducing a measure to delay groundbreaking on the stadium until Minnesota’s finance commissioner can certify that the revenues from electronic pultabs and other…
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Estimate: 4.5M hours of labor for Vikings stadium construction

Estimate: 4.5M hours of labor for Vikings stadium construction

The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority gave a quick update on the status of the new stadium to the Legislative Commission on Minnesota Sports Facilities yesterday. There wasn’t a whole lot of news, but there was an interesting card in the MSFA’s “deck,” in Powerpoint parlance. The MSFA put up a table of the project’s workforce…
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Dayton: Don’t rush to judgment on electronic pulltabs, Vikings stadium funding

Dayton: Don’t rush to judgment on electronic pulltabs, Vikings stadium funding

DFL Governor Mark Dayton says the criticism about the less-than-expected gambling revenue needed to fund the state share of a new Vikings stadium is premature and politically motivated. Republican critics like state Sen. Sean Nienow (R-Cambridge) have called for an investigation into the miscalculation. But Dayton said an investigation would be a waste of taxpayer…
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Live blog: Legislative Commission on Minnesota Sports Facilities

The first ever meeting of the Legislative Commission on Minnesota Sports Facilities is convening at the State Office Building. (Click on headline to see updates.) Tim Nelson April 2, 20132:08 pm In post-meeting presser, MSFA chair Michele Kelm-Helgen says that fixed roof language is just a place holder from the legislation, doesn’t represent a decision…
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St. Paul: Forget about the abandoned factory and ballpark plan

St. Paul: Forget about the abandoned factory and ballpark plan

The City of St. Paul is not interested in saving the empty Diamond Products factory in any way, shape or form. That’s the message from mayor Chris Coleman, who is sending a letter in response to constituent inquiries about the plan to save the factory where White Rain shampoo, Dippity-Do hair gel and other personal…
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Duluth’s Wade Stadium has a long wish list, possibly including a sales tax renewal

Duluth’s Wade Stadium has a long wish list, possibly including a sales tax renewal

Duluth mayor Don Ness said his city wants to take another crack at winning state support for Wade Stadium, and he’s willing to put city sales tax dollars behind it. Ness told the News Tribune that the city could revive a recently expired half-cent food and drink tax to fund the stadium project. The tax…
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Lawmakers looking to settle Target Center, Xcel Energy Center rivalry

Lawmakers looking to settle Target Center, Xcel Energy Center rivalry

  The Star Tribune’s Eric Roper says that the cutthroat rivalry between the arenas in Minneapolis and St. Paul is the subject of an armistice effort by lawmakers from each city. The story quotes a Minneapolis promoter saying the rivalry regularly costs the host venue $50,000 a show. The bill asks for a study ahead of…
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How’s the Target Center renovation with the Timberwolves going?

How’s the Target Center renovation with the Timberwolves going?

Almost a year after it won legislative approval, the Vikings stadium is still stirring up controversy. But Target Center? Not so much. The proposed $150 million $135 million $100 million $121 million $100 million redo of the city-owned arena is inching along, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak said this week. “We’re moving. We continue to have conversations. We’re close, but we’re not…
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Vikings stadium opinion roundup: Calls for deal do-over at the Capitol

Vikings stadium opinion roundup: Calls for deal do-over at the Capitol

A year after doubts started about the Minnesota’s expectations for electronic pulltabs, the drumbeats are starting for a re-do on the state’s side of the Vikings stadium deal. Skeptics have long called for the Vikings to put more into the deal, but the sagging revenue for the state’s share has kicked off a new round…
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