2011 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:13:32 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Viking stadium proposal at Twin Cities Ammo Plant (MN)
 
Ramsey County's stadium study
Minnesotans like the Vikes. But should taxpayers pitch in for a new palace?


Pioneer Press (MN)
February 12, 2011

The Ramsey County Board will consider jumping into the Minnesota Vikings' stadium hunt this week. A resolution on Tuesday will seek authority to negotiate with the team to build a new stadium on abandoned federal land in Arden Hills.

...

County commissioner Tony Bennett, whose district includes the abandoned Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant, has long put forward a sliver of this property as a possible site. The site under consideration is a 430-acre parcel of the 2,400-acre site, known as TCAAP, which the federal government has offered for sale.

The need for environmental cleanup and building demolition complicate the project. But the location is not far from I-35W and U.S. Highway 10 and there is ample land for a stadium, parking lots and for the type of related commercial and retail development that Vikings' owner Zygi Wilf is known for.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.twincities.com/opinion/ci_17365390?nclick_check=1

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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