Here is a look at the construction costs of the current NFL stadiums along with the proposed Vikings stadium plan in Arden Hills. All numbers are in 2011 dollars: There is no question that the new Dallas Cowboys stadium is superior to the San Francisco 49ers stadium. And, any new stadium built for the Vikings [...]
It’s not every day that I find myself on the same page as the coalition of Republican legislators. But, it’s not every day that I read a co-signed StarTribune editorial from Republican legislators sticking up for the 99%: A special session is meant to be called only under extraordinary circumstance. Does taking money from the [...]
The slide below is one of the more interesting pieces of data I’ve seen used by Cory Merrifield with @savethevikesorg and, presumably, by the Minnesota Vikings, considering that the data comes from the Vikings stadium consulting firm, CSL. It lists recent stadium financing deals with a breakdown of how much private and public money was [...]
A guy rolls into town in a limo from the National Football League to demand public money for Zygi Wilf’s private business. While demanding the public’s money, he mentions this: Of the $420 million or so the Wilfs have said the Vikings would contribute to a new stadium, Grubman estimated $100 million to $150 million [...]
Rick Prescott at BallparkMagic.com has an awesome post up about the chances of the Arden Hills Vikings #Wilfare $650,000,000 demand coming to fruition. It’s a great read. If you read two pieces on the current state of the Vikings stadium debate, read this and this (PDF). For example, his take on why Wilf doesn’t want [...]
Great news from @SaveTheVikesOrg’s Cory Merrifield: For those of you who are not familiar with Personal Seat Licenses, they are a way that many NFL teams have raised money for new stadium projects by charging for the right for season ticket holders to buy premium seats in the new stadium. At its most extreme, the [...]
Vikings season ticket holders / Vikings stadium Wilfare supporters tend to be a chatty bunch, until their demands for public subsidies of their season tickets are questioned. Below are five examples of tweets from Vikings season ticket holders that received no response. I think this question needs to be addressed. Why do Vikings season ticket [...]
Tom Powers has an article in the Pioneer Press that makes the sophomoric justification that we need to pay now or pay more later when it comes to NFL stadiums. The ironic thing about this whole debate is that the anti-stadium crowd has staked out the high ground of fiscal responsibility. In fact, it is [...]
The Pioneer Press ran two letters to the editor on the 13th that had something to do with the public financing. First, a guy begging to have a Vikings stadium subsidized a rate of $1 million per regular season home game. Ever game. For 30 years. Build a Vikings stadium in Arden Hills A Vikings [...]
Update: 20 hours later Pioneer Press has restored the post with the following explanation. UPDATE: The numbers and mechanics on how to get the tax on the ballot are being disputed by some parties. We are following up on this and will post again when we know more. Bob Salwasser noticed that the Pioneer Press [...]
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