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The government entity overseeing construction of the new Vikings stadium, the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority, is asking the architecture firm designing the stadium to involve businesses owned by women and minoritie.
With the selection of the architectural firm for the new Vikings stadium, one question still to be answered is how much work will be subcontracted to African American firms.
My name is Tom F. Johnson III and I’d like to represent the people of South Minneapolis in St. Paul.
My last two posts discussed several Vikings-stadium-area development issues (here and here). I’ll wrap up this string of posts with another suggestion for the city: do not build skyways near the new stadium.
In my last post, I wrote that the City of Minneapolis must actively encourage development around the future Vikings stadium site. Continue Reading
From the beginning of the introduction of the stadium bill to the upcoming 1st meeting of the new Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority (Authority) a lot of the major decisions about it have been under the cloak of secrecy. Continue Reading
Council Member Gary Schiff addressed a rally of anti-stadium activists before the vote on Friday.
The Vikings stadium fight is over; team owner Zygi Wilf won.
Mr. Wilf got an astounding amount of money from taxpayers, while convincing politicians and some fans that he is doing them a favor.
Several weeks ago, the Vikings Stadium bill was described as a “Hail Mary,” the last-second deep pass play in football with little chance of success. In reality, it was more like the closing scenes of a poorly-scripted WWE wrestling match. Continue Reading
In all likelihood this will be the last post dedicated to The People’s Boondoggle until elections come around, as the gang of seven and the NFL have succeeded in trampling over the Minneapolis city charter. At this point there would be only one obscure way to overturn the legislature’s and council’s votes on the topic. Continue Reading