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Lucia Apologist
Re: Business, Economics & Tax Policy 5.0: Can a blind nut find a squirrel?
For you out-of-staters, what 5mm isn't tell you is that the Metrodome was purposefully designed to be a sh-thole. It was meant to be put up as cheaply and efficiently as possible. From wikipedia: "One stadium official once said that all the Metrodome was designed to do was 'get fans in, let 'em see a game, and let 'em go home.'"
It was the bare minimum to keep the teams (and by the way, it was teams and not over a billion dollars to just the Vikings). It did actually generate a net positive revenue for the state. I don't doubt that for a second. But it was built for $181 million in 2016 dollars. I would have mostly supported a stadium that was financed in partnership with the ownership if it cost $181 million like TCF Bank Stadium. But one thing that TCF has going for it that the professionals don't have is that it's a stadium for a public school. The profits are funneled to a man who was told by a New Jersey judge who found him liable for racketeering and fraud that it was one of the worst she had seen. IN NEW JERSEY!
But that's not what happened. We forked over a billion dollars and Zygi will have paid virtually nothing himself after the naming rights were sold (we didn't see a penny of that). We built a modern day palace and handed the keys over a convicted mobster.
ETA: I'm not convinced 5mm isn't Rick Spielman or one of the other Vikings execs. Didn't he say a number of years ago he worked in the South Metro and feared getting shot on his way to work on 494?
For you out-of-staters, what 5mm isn't tell you is that the Metrodome was purposefully designed to be a sh-thole. It was meant to be put up as cheaply and efficiently as possible. From wikipedia: "One stadium official once said that all the Metrodome was designed to do was 'get fans in, let 'em see a game, and let 'em go home.'"
It was the bare minimum to keep the teams (and by the way, it was teams and not over a billion dollars to just the Vikings). It did actually generate a net positive revenue for the state. I don't doubt that for a second. But it was built for $181 million in 2016 dollars. I would have mostly supported a stadium that was financed in partnership with the ownership if it cost $181 million like TCF Bank Stadium. But one thing that TCF has going for it that the professionals don't have is that it's a stadium for a public school. The profits are funneled to a man who was told by a New Jersey judge who found him liable for racketeering and fraud that it was one of the worst she had seen. IN NEW JERSEY!
But that's not what happened. We forked over a billion dollars and Zygi will have paid virtually nothing himself after the naming rights were sold (we didn't see a penny of that). We built a modern day palace and handed the keys over a convicted mobster.
ETA: I'm not convinced 5mm isn't Rick Spielman or one of the other Vikings execs. Didn't he say a number of years ago he worked in the South Metro and feared getting shot on his way to work on 494?
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