I mentioned earlier today that RT Rybak claimed at last night’s Vikings stadium forum at Nokomis Community Center that 10% of downtown hotel revenue is attributable to Vikings games. As I mentioned in my previous post, that seems hard to believe, considering that they only run their business 10 days per year while there are [...]
Minneapolis Mayor, RT Rybak, held a hearing on the current Vikings stadium plan at the Nokomis Community Center on Tuesday, April 10th. I had a chance to check it out and do some tweeting from the front row. Here’s how that turned out. The post below flips between tweets from last night and color commentary [...]
If the current Vikings stadium Wilfare bill were to pass in its current form, you would find yourself paying a 3% tax on restaurants and liquor sales 365 days per year withinn the area outlined below: When I had a grilled cheese for lunch at Republic at 7 Corners today (excellent spot), that 3% went [...]
The latest Vikings stadium push poll hit the press on Friday. While early reports focused on regurgitation, local media outlets gained maturity throughout the day with some ignoring the push poll entirely. The poll was conducted by Home Field Advantage. This is a group of local business and community leaders who are not interested in [...]
KARE 11 has a couple quotes from Don Samuels in a piece on the state of Vikings stadium financing by the city (something they are not authorized to do without a referendum if they plan to spend more than $10 million of the public’s money on a pro sports stadium). KARE 11′s quotes from Samuels: [...]
The Minneapolis City Council seems to be working a bit too hard to redistribute the city’s money to a New Jersey businessman for my taste. Based on . . . – the overly generous state level financing in the current stadium bill (which Minneapolis residents would obviously be subject to as well) – the unstable [...]
The StarTribune’s latest editorial lobbying to spend the public’s money to subsidize Zygi Wilf’s business shows that they aren’t really interested in convincing the Vikings to stay in the current Metrodome, convincing business leaders to subsidize Wilf’s business, or convincing fans to pay for Zygi’s stadium. They just want the state and city to pick [...]
Blue Door Pub Longfellow Location Beer & Wine Hearing As surely everyone in Longfellow has heard by now, the Blue Door Pub is working on opening a new location at the corner of 42nd Ave S at 35th St. The plan is for a 75 seat restaurant similar to the one they operate today on [...]
Back on March 12th, I wrote up a post about my experience with a misleading push poll from the MN Building Trades regarding supporting corporate welfare for Zygi Wilf and Vikings season ticket holders. The poll made factually incorrect statements about the terms in the current stadium bill, including claiming that Zygi Wilf would be [...]
Rick brought up an interesting scenario in the comments of a previous post: @Ed. As an isolated question, the vast majority doesn’t want to provide Wilfare. If it becomes a matter of providing Wilfare or losing the Vikes, I think that the legislature is sensing that Wilfare option has the least backlash. He goes on [...]
