September 16, 2011 7:20 PM
The Score: Vikes Push for New Stadium; Stars File for Bankruptcy
Posted by Brian Baxter
The Minnesota Vikings quest for a new stadium got a renewed sense of urgency last December when the roof of the team’s current home collapsed after a snowstorm.
The National Football League franchise has since ramped up its efforts to construct a new facility in suburban Arden Hills, Minn., by throwing its weight behind a proposal to raise the sales tax by a half cent in local Ramsey County to generate $350 million toward the project’s estimated $1 billion price tag.
According to a report this week in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, however, cost overruns could push the price of replacing the nearly 32-year-old Metrodome significantly higher. The Vikings would incur the cost of those overruns, but stadium backers fear a public referendum on using public funds could doom the deal.
There is some political opposition to using any public funds—Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has already agreed to kick in $300 million from state coffers—to build another sports facility in Minneapolis, which last year saw
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