From the Minneapolis observer....
Interesting bit of information from Annie Young today: It seems that Hennepin County officials are bribing the Park Board to endorse the stadium plan, promising an additional $1 million in park funding if they climb aboard. Young did not say whether she would vote for such an endorsement, but noted that “A million bucks is hard to turn down when you’re broke.”
Gee Whiz... does this $1 million come with any strings attached.... say for rebuilding Parade Stadium??? This would certainly explain why Jon Gurban the Superintendent of the MPRB was asking ( at the city council last fall) to attach $$$ for a Parade stadium re-build to any professional stadium bill that went through.
For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of hearing the MPRB Superintendent speak, I did at the Longfellow Community Council pancake breakfast, the Superintendent has a plan. He would like to build Minneapolis some gathering spaces... like the Parade Stadium and Minneapolis Armory of his youth in the 1950's. In an era of individual stores for everything building a "place" that caters to everyone is going to be quite the challenge. Is this $1 million the seed money for the Superintendent's field of dreams?
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