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NFL fans: Minnesota metrodome being demolished
« on: February 03, 2014, 08:31:42 AM »
If you're an NFL fan, you may want to follow the demolition of the metrodome. Basically, they're replacing it on the same site with a new one. That ripped up fabric roof in the picture was replaced just a couple of years ago after storm damage. I think repair costs were about 40 million. They're salvaging it to make tarps out of it. Talk about depreciation!
 
 
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Re: NFL fans: Minnesota metrodome being demolished
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2014, 01:53:33 PM »
Wonder if the tax payers are paying for the new one. When new stadiums were built in Pittsburgh a referendum was put on the ballot asking voters if they wanted tax dollars used for the new stadium. It was voted down, and then the communists they voted for did it anyway with tax dollars. I think just about every stadium build now is using tax payers money to build them. The lie is that they will bring revenue to the city. Heck Detroit is bankrupt, yet the same people that bankrupt the city is still going to use tax dollars to build a Redwings stadium. Its the new ploy now for sports team owners. Claim they will leave town if they don't get a new building to play in. Then they have the tax payers build it for them, with the help of corrupt politicians.

Just googled this and found out that its projected at 975 million, so for sure it will run over a billion. 150 million will be funded by the tax payers of Minneapolis and 348 million from tax payers in the rest of the state. So half the cost is tax payer funded. Its no wonder this country is broke. 

Look at our shiny new stadium, now we have to raise taxes, and ticket prices.   
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Re: NFL fans: Minnesota metrodome being demolished
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2014, 03:51:24 PM »
DDZ,


The way it worked here is that it kept being rejected, and they kept bringing it back up until they got it. Minnesota voters dont count for anything. It is very corrupt. Economic impact has been well studied, and it's a net negative for the state. The one being demolished now was only used a few days per year, maybe 14 or some absurdly low number of days. We just got a new baseball stadium too. Open air, which is an interesting choice in a place that has reliably bad weather every third day during summer, and about one out of two the rest of the year.