User:Matthew.Wisniewski

The article, “Vikings to play outdoors for 2 years,” details the Minnesota Vikings' stadium plans. The 2013 NFL season will be their last season in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Vikings’ new stadium will be built during the 2014 and 2015 seasons. During that time, the Vikings have plans to play at the University of Minnesota’s TCF Bank Stadium. The new stadium, constructed by Mortenson Construction, will cost $975 million. Also, the Vikings will pay the University of Minnesota $3 million per season played in their stadium. The Vikings and the university will also split the profits from concessions, sponsorship, and advertising which would amount to about $50,000 a game. One of the focal points of the article is that the temporary stadium will have no roof. “The ’14 and ’15 seasons will be the first the Vikings play outdoors since abandoning Bloomington’s Metropolitan Stadium at the end of the 1981 season” (Vikings to play outdoors for 2 years). The construction of the new stadium will produce 7,500 new jobs for construction workers.

This article relates to class through the multiplier effect. The stadium itself will cost $975 million and the Minnesota based construction firm, Mortenson Construction, will earn between $12.5 - $15 mil for constructing the stadium. As we learned in class, stadiums/professional teams do not have a significant economic impact. Of all of the money invested into the new stadium it is questionable as to how much of that money will be re-invested into the Minnesotan economy.

Below is the link to the article: http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8952064/minnesota-vikings-two-seasons-tcf-bank-stadium