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  • Hennepin County Board ChairmanBuy nike running shoes online Mike Opat and a number of business leaders are pushing an area west of the Twins stadium in Minneapolis. The site would require expensive relocation of current occupants, and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak does not support building there.

     

  • Rybak prefers tearing down the Metrodome and rebuilding on or near that site. However, that site appears to have no local funds, since Hennepin County doesn't support it and Rybak has said his city can't afford to pitch in. It's also possible that tearing down the dome would force the team to play at the University of Minnesota's stadium for several years, a prospect the team doesn't fancy.

     

  • Ramsey County has been negotiating with the team over a site near Interstate 35W and U.S. 10 at the shuttered Twin Cities Army Ammunitions Plant in Arden Hills. However, it's unclear how much progress those talks, which have been occurring in earnest for months, have made. Ramsey County officials have said they're growing impatient and are not interested in getting into a bidding war with Hennepin County.

    Team officials have noted attributes and drawbacks for each site and have never been clear if they have a preference.  Reebok ZigTech

    The $300 million state contribution outlined in the bill sets up the potential for a widely expected starting point for negotiations on a stadium expected to cost about $900 million: a third from the state, a third from a local government and a third from the team.

    At a time when lawmakers are grappling with how to patch a projected two-year $5 billion budget hole, the notion of a tax-subsidized stadium has received mixed reviews from lawmakers from both parties. Republicans are opposed to increasing taxes, while many Democrats support tax hikes to fund state services and programs currently under threat and say it would be unseemly to raise taxes for a professional football team instead.

    But that hasn't fazed Rosen and Lanning, who each emphasized that the bill is merely a "framework," given that no site and no local government plan exist yet.

    "It's a good start to a situation where there is no site picked or local partner," Rosen said Thursday. "This has the state's share, and like many things, that's negotiable. This is just a start." Buy nike running shoes online, Brand shoes to trade, 2011 nike running shoes Buy

    Lanning said he expected pushback from his colleagues.

    "We know that not everybody is going to like everything," he said. "At the end of the day, the Vikings are going to have to make a substantial commitment and a local partner will have to make a substantial commitment."

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