{"id":831,"date":"2005-05-06T19:46:04","date_gmt":"2005-05-06T19:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=831"},"modified":"2005-05-06T19:46:04","modified_gmt":"2005-05-06T19:46:04","slug":"build_it_and_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"Build It And They Will Come"},"content":{"rendered":"

It looks like we may soon be getting a new Twins stadium<\/a> in Minneapolis. This could be the finale in a decade-long public debate about whether to build a new baseball stadium for the Twins. Everyone agrees that the cavernous, sterile Metrodome is a terrible forum for almost any professional or collegiate sport. I’ve been to the Dome for a variety of sporting events. As a venue for professional football, it’s tolerable. For baseball and college football, it’s depressing. A new stadium in the Warehouse District, with views of the downtown skyline, could be a splendid setting for a baseball game. The proposed financing deal is probably the best we can hope for. The owners will put up $125 million; the other half will come from a .015% sales tax increase in Hennepin County. A lot of county residents want to put the issue to a referendum, but the County Commission has already approved the tax increase. Now it’s up to the legislature to give final approval. I can understand how people continue to be upset about using public dollars for a stadium. As Jay Weiner, a fellow Humphrey Fellow and a local sports writer, likes to point out, a new sports stadium does not necessarily translate into economic benefits for the host city. But the tax amounts to only three cents on every twenty dollars. I’m not a huge baseball fan, but I’d like to see the Twins stay in Minnesota. And if we do get a new outdoor stadium, I might be persuaded to actually go to a few games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It looks like we may soon be getting a new Twins stadium in Minneapolis. This could be the finale in a decade-long public debate about whether to build a new baseball stadium for the Twins. Everyone agrees that the cavernous, sterile Metrodome is a terrible forum for almost any professional or collegiate sport. I’ve been […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-dp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}