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The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority  picked Minneapolis-based Mortenson Construction to build the new Vikings stadium in downtown Minneapolis.

Vikings team vice president Lester Bagley said the team will likely play two full seasons at the University of Minnesota football stadium while the new stadium is built .

Mortsenson is already known for most of the Twin Cities sports landmarks, including the 

Mortenson was contending with Arizona-based Hunt Construction, which built 

, where the Indianapolis Colts play, and the 

, where the Arizona Cardinals play. They also build landmarks like 

Hunt sweetened its bid by teaming up with Minneapolis-based Kraus-Anderson, which built the U of M's 

The pick comes as no real surprise: Mortenson actually 

, back in 2008, when the then-Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission was planning its "Metrodome Next" intiative. Mortenson has also been in on the ground floor in the latest project, lobbying for state aid for the project up at the Legislature, offering construction schedule and cost estimates and otherwise doing the legwork for the runup to the stadium bill signed last May.

The construction management services agreement is the biggest contract in the stadium project. The stadium itself is expected to cost about $822 million of the total $975 million cost of the planning, land acquisition, building and other elements of getting a new stadium open.

Initial designs for what Mortenson is supposed to be working on are expected to be unveiled in a few weeks by the MSFA and HKS architects. Groundbreaking is scheduled for October, and the Vikings should kick off their first game there in the second half of 2016, if all goes as planned.

Tim Nelson

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The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority  picked Minneapolis-based Mortenson Construction to build the new Vikings stadium in downtown Minneapolis. Vikings team vice president Lester Bagley said the team will likely play two full seasons at the University of Minnesota football stadium while the new stadium is built . Mortsenson is already known for most of the…

Mortenson Construction picked to build new Vikings stadium

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