From today's PiPress today:
Minneapolis' Warehouse District could soon be home to the most expensive open-air baseball park yet.
The Twins' plan exceeds price tags for baseball stadiums built in the past 15 years by tens of millions of dollars, even factoring for inflation, economists say. The average cost of a baseball stadium built between 1989 and 2004 — with or without a roof — was $345 million in today's dollars. The Twins' stadium is expected to cost $478 million.
Minneapolis' Warehouse District could soon be home to the most expensive open-air baseball park yet.
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/politics/11663133.htm
Also of note from the same paper:
Editorial: Why $300 million in public investment would have been worth more in St. Paul than it will be in the city across the river.
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/editorial/11642484.htm
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