Minnesota’s puffy-topped Metrodome that has hosted monster truck rallies, the Final Four and the Super Bowl soon will host its final event. Ahead of its demolition, historians and others are sizing up what should be saved.
Even as the newly approved lease and development agreements for the new Vikings stadium moved the $975 million project closer to a planned mid-November groundbreaking, rising construction costs are having an effect on the budget.
A leading Democratic state lawmaker said he is growing more concerned about the reliability of tax revenue from electronic gambling machines that is supposed to help pay for construction of a new Minnesota Vikings stadium.