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Stadium Watch Blog

Twins’ Target Field getting a good hot shower after winter blast

Twins’ Target Field getting a good hot shower after winter blast

It’s now less than two weeks until the opening pitch of the Twins 2013 season at Target Field, and the place is still digging out from 3.1 inches of snow that fell in Minneapolis on Monday. Twins spokesman Kevin Smith says they’ll have the stadium ready to go, despite the blizzard — thanks in part…
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Vikings get NFL loan, but financing questions over personal seat licenses remain

Vikings get NFL loan, but financing questions over personal seat licenses remain

The NFL came through with the loan they promised the Vikings to finance for their $477 million share of a new stadium has won the official stamp of approval from NFL owners meeting in Arizona, according to 1500 ESPN Twin Cities. It’s no surprise. The Vikings have been talking about the $200 million loan for…
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Electronic bingo approved; aimed at boosting Vikings stadium funding

Audio: MPR’s Tim Nelson discusses electronic bingo and Vikings stadium funding The Minnesota Gambling Control board gave the green light to electronic bingo in Minnesota Monday, adding to the expanded charitable gambling slated to pay for the state’s share of the $1 billion Vikings stadium. The “linked bingo” games allow gamblers at different locations to…
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Follow the money: an interactive map of Minnesota’s electronic pulltab gaming

Follow the money: an interactive map of Minnesota’s electronic pulltab gaming

They’re the Minnesota Vikings, and the law that funds the public contribution to their new stadium covers the whole state. But the actual landscape of the new games is another story: the money is concentrated, at least according to the most recent data available, mostly around the Interstate 94 corridor. Below, you’ll find a map…
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Neighbors getting nervous about Vikings move to U and TCF Bank Stadium in 2014

Neighbors getting nervous about Vikings move to U and TCF Bank Stadium in 2014

The Twin Cities Daily Planet’s Bill Huntzicker has an interesting round up on the neighbors nervously eyeing the prospect of Vikings games at TCF Bank Stadium — likely starting in August of 2014. The Marcy Homes Neighborhood Association, the folks living in Prospect Park and the U of M area business community are all wondering…
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Gambling board hears e-pulltab complaints

Gambling board hears e-pulltab complaints

Drew Naseth, a Faribault paper pulltab supplier,  is accusing the state of fumbling the rollout of electronic pulltabs in a report offered to the Minnesota Gambling Control Board and other state officials. The board’s executive committee, Chair William Goede, Norm Pint and Bill Gillespie, heard a summary of the report from Executive Director Tom Barrett this morning.…
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New outfield seating debuts at Target Field for its earliest-ever Twins home opener

New outfield seating debuts at Target Field for its earliest-ever Twins home opener

The Minnesota Twins regular season is just 485 hours away. That’s about 20 days. The folks over at Target Field are getting ready to welcome the Twins home from spring training. They took the tarp off of the infield last week, and they’ll have a new seating arrangement waiting for fans out by the right…
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Maybe that threat to move the Vikings to LA wasn’t such a threat after all

Maybe that threat to move the Vikings to LA wasn’t such a threat after all

Not only are the Atlanta Falcons offering a stadium down payment nearly twice what the Vikings offered up front  — it looks like fear of the Vikings moving to Los Angeles might have been overblown, as well. Yahoo Sports’s Jason Cole says NFL officials told him they’re all but writing off the plan to put a team…
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Troubles continue for electronic pulltabs in Vikings stadium finance plan

Troubles continue for electronic pulltabs in Vikings stadium finance plan

The latest figures from the Minnesota Gambling Control Board show the games continue to roll out — they were in 167 sites at the end of February, with 823 machines up and running. And they just missed a $2 million record for the month. That’s the good news. But at the same time, the roll…
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Whose backup stadium financing plan is it, anyway?

Whose backup stadium financing plan is it, anyway?

More disappointing news about electronic pulltabs in February seems to make it more likely yet that the state will have to rely on backup financing options baked into last year’s stadium bill. The first of those backups to blink on will be a lottery game. Minnesota State Lottery officials said a previous Vikings scratch-off game,…
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