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Rybak: Workforce agreements in place for new Vikings stadium
Posted by: Mike Kaszuba under Funding, Minnesota governor, Gov. Mark Dayton, Minnesota legislature, Minnesota state senators, State budgets Updated: February 6, 2012 - 9:54 AM
Keeping up the pressure to forge an overall deal for a new Minnesota Vikings stadium, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak will join labor and business leaders Monday in announcing workforce agreements for the project.
The agreements come as Rybak, along with Gov. Mark Dayton, continue their push for a new stadium at the site of the Metrodome, where the team has played for the past three decades. Ted Mondale, the governor’s lead stadium negotiator, said officials are finalizing a plan to see whether a new stadium can be built alongside the Metrodome, and have it 75 percent complete by 2016.
But the project, despite Monday’s announcement, still faces significant hurdles: There appears to be only lukewarm support, at best, from leaders of the Republican majority at the state Capitol to complete a stadium deal this legislative session, and a stadium agreement still may not have the support of the majority of the Minneapolis City Council.
In addition, Ramsey County is trying to keep alive its own proposal to build a $1.1 billion stadium in Arden Hills, a site the team said it still prefers.
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