[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Viking stadium proposal at Twin Cities Ammo Plant (MN)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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.

...

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
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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