Comments on twin city sidewalks: mpls: Twins Stadium About Face

Mr Sidewalks! I can't believe you're caving on th...

2006-04-26T13:14:00.000-06:00

Mr Sidewalks! I can't believe you're caving on the stadium issue! I haven't heard of "stadium fatigue", but I agree that it has to be a factor in why things are all of a sudden going towards the new ballpark. I still haven't figured out if its really law that the tax should go to a public vote, but if it did I'm confident it wouldn't pass. Mayor Quimby, er I mean Norm Coleman, tried it in St Paul a number of years back and it failed miserably. Stopleftwingnuts also has a good point about the tax being forever whereas the stadium has a limited lifetime.

This stadium is a BAD IDEA, when we built the infl...

2006-04-25T19:34:00.000-06:00

This stadium is a BAD IDEA, when we built the inflatable toilet otherwise known as the metro dome we passed a sales tax increase on food and liquor in downtown Minneapolis. The dome is paid for and the tax still has not gone away. We presently pay 10% sales tax on food and 14% sales tax on liquor in downtown Minneapolis. Thats the problem with public funded stadiums long after they are paid for we keep paying the tax. I have never heard of a tax going away after it passes in Minnesota. The people of Hennepin County will only see a Micro tax and that will be here long past my great great great grand childs 60th birthday. The problem is the stadium will only be used for 20 to 30 years. When we do this will the tax go away when the dome goes away? No they have already budgeted on how to spend the money for the next 50 years.

carl pohlad is very rich. the minnesota twins aren...

2006-04-21T00:34:00.000-06:00

carl pohlad is very rich. the minnesota twins aren't exactly a great money-making venture.

i didn't know about the green building or the bridge plan. these are exactly the kind of reasons i'm a huge supporter of the plan. the open air non-roof real grass is the most important part in my opinion, in that it's the difference between putting 40,000 people downtown on a sunny 78 F saturday and putting 9,000 (in the dome) or 15,000 (in a new dome) downtown and 25-30,000 people elsewhere. that right there is what you might call the difference between what makes a neighborhood and what doesn't.

I like the idea of the Twins Stadium and all the d...

2006-04-20T23:56:00.000-06:00

I like the idea of the Twins Stadium and all the development, transit, etc. that will come with it. However, the Twins have plenty of money right? Carl Pohlad is one of the wealthiest men in the nation. If he wants a stadium so badly, why doesn't he build it himeself. But I am sure you have heard this a hundred times. My only concern with building the Twins a brand new facility, is that there is nothing keeping the team or owner from being sold to somewhere else...The Gophers, on the other hand, are tied down as a part of the U of M and can't be sold to another state. If there were previsions in the contract with the State that the Twins would remain in the stadium for 50 years after it is completed and not be sold than you have my vote.