Postby Mdcastle » November 12th, 2023, 9:39 pm
We didn't need replacements for the Met Center or the Metrodome either, but we got them. I'm guessing that if they don't claim the X is a teardown, they'll come up with a couple of hundred million dollars in "needed" upgrades, to be seized from struggling hard working taxpayers without a referandum rather than paid for by the Wild owner's $4 billion net worth, of course, or the Wild will start whining and crying and stamp their feet and threatneing to run away from home like toddlers not getting candy when taxpayers don't give them billion dollar arenas and stadiums.
Call me cynical, but these studies tend to massively overstate vaguelly needed "structural repairs" to convince everyone the property is a tear-down, like the Bill's stadium, or have "urgently needed" ugrades like a few dozen more luxury suites, a bar to sell $30 cocktails, and a canal connection with locks and a boathouse so the owner can drive his yacht directly into the arena. I doubt it'll come back with "all this arena really needs are some new electrical panels for the locker rooms since we can no longer get parts for the ones we have, and the flooring in the concourses is wearing out and needs refinishing".