Minneapolis officials want at least a $30 million piece of the Metrodome's value. This move would significantly cut into the money being used on to help build a new Vikings stadium in Arden Hills. In a letter that was sent to Gov. Mark Dayton on Monday, city officials said that Minneapolis had rights to the proceeds of the Metrodome that should not automatically be used to help build a new $1 billion stadium in Ramsey County. City officials said that a state law provides that Minneapolis and Hennepin County are due $5 million should the Metrodome be sold, but added that the city also had poured many millions more into the facility, including nearly $16 million in revenues from liquor and hotel taxes alone.
I think that they shouldn't use the money from the Metrodome to build a new Vikings stadium. The Metrodome is the Metrodome and the Vikings aren't the only ones that hold events there, so I think that it would be unfair if they would take money away from the other groups that hold events there for their own selfish needs just to build a new stadium that they really don't eve need.
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