I had another take on the whole new home for the Vikings debate; Jobs! The Vikings claim 7,500 construction jobs will be created, Mortenson Construction claims 1,600 construction workers will be needed to build a stadium (Mortenson has built a majority of Minnesota’s large stadiums so their numbers are more believable to me). Will they all necessarily be Minnesota jobs? Mortenson will more than likely get the General Contractor bid, so how many people, equipment, and supplies will they bring in from out of state? Heck, they brought grass from Colorado for Target Field! There are still engineers and architects who need jobs and Minnesota stadiums tend to outsource that portion.
Architecture (these guys are doing all the newer venues)
Populous/HOK Sport
300 Wyandotte
Kansas City, MO 64105
Project Manager
International Facilities Group, LLC.
105 West Adams Street Suite 2700
Chicago IL 60603
Structural engineer
Walter P Moore Engineers and Consultants
1301 Mckinney St # 1100
Houston, TX 77010-3064
General Contractor
Mortenson/Thor
700 Meadow Lane North
Minneapolis, MN 55422
Grass (Minnesota can't even grow grass good enough for Minnesota baseball)
Graff's Turf Farm
Fort Morgan, Colorado
Architect
Populous (formerly HOK Sport), Architectural Alliance, Studio Hive
Structural engineer
Magnusson Klemencic Associates
1301 5th Ave # 3200
Seattle, WA 98101-2614
General Contractor
M.A. Mortenson Company
700 Meadow Lane North
Minneapolis, MN 55422
Architecture (Again Minnesotans weren't good enough to be the lead Architects)
Populous/HOK Sport
Project Manager
Mortenson/Thor
700 Meadow Lane North
Minneapolis, MN 55422
Structural engineer
Geiger Engineers PC
2 Executive Blvd # 410
Suffern, NY 10901-8220
Services engineer
M*E Engineers
General Contractor
WNW Steel Co.
Architect
KMR Architects
7600 Wayzata Blvd., Suite 200
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55416
Project Manager
M.A. Mortenson Company
700 Meadow Lane North
Minneapolis, MN 55422
Structural engineer
Ericksen Roed and Associates, Inc.
2550 University Ave W # 201S
Saint Paul, MN 55114-1904
General Contractor
Ames Construction
14420 County Road 5
Burnsville, MN 55306-6997
Architect
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Chicago, Il
Structural engineer
Geiger Berger Associates
New York City
General Contractor
Barton-Malow
26500 American Drive
Southfield, MI 48034
Excel & Metrodome
Centerplate
2187 Atlantic Street
Stamford, CT 06902
Morrissey Hospitality (St Paul) is the premium seats caterer at Excel
Target Field & Target Center
Delaware North Companies Sportservice
40 Fountain Plaza
Buffalo, New York 14202
TCF Bank Stadium
Aramark
1101 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Target Field - ?
Excel Center - Self-Managed
Target Center - AEG Corporate Headquarters
800 West Olympic Blvd., Suite 305
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Metrodome - ?
A little history on Minnesota Stadiums (according to Wikipedia):
Target Field
Populous/HOK Sport
300 Wyandotte
Kansas City, MO 64105
International Facilities Group, LLC.
105 West Adams Street Suite 2700
Chicago IL 60603
Walter P Moore Engineers and Consultants
1301 Mckinney St # 1100
Houston, TX 77010-3064
Mortenson/Thor
700 Meadow Lane North
Minneapolis, MN 55422
Graff's Turf Farm
Fort Morgan, Colorado
TCF Bank Stadium
Populous (formerly HOK Sport), Architectural Alliance, Studio Hive
Magnusson Klemencic Associates
1301 5th Ave # 3200
Seattle, WA 98101-2614
M.A. Mortenson Company
700 Meadow Lane North
Minneapolis, MN 55422
Xcel Energy Center
Populous/HOK Sport
Mortenson/Thor
700 Meadow Lane North
Minneapolis, MN 55422
Geiger Engineers PC
2 Executive Blvd # 410
Suffern, NY 10901-8220
M*E Engineers
WNW Steel Co.
Target Center (something needs to be said of how much Minnesota went into this venue)
KMR Architects
7600 Wayzata Blvd., Suite 200
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55416
M.A. Mortenson Company
700 Meadow Lane North
Minneapolis, MN 55422
Ericksen Roed and Associates, Inc.
2550 University Ave W # 201S
Saint Paul, MN 55114-1904
Ames Construction
14420 County Road 5
Burnsville, MN 55306-6997
Metrodome
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Chicago, Il
Geiger Berger Associates
New York City
Barton-Malow
26500 American Drive
Southfield, MI 48034
Concessions (Minnesota companies don’t even get the majority of the concessions contracts)
Management
800 West Olympic Blvd., Suite 305
Los Angeles, CA 90015
So are Minnesotans going to have to pay for a stadium for a New Jersey native with another home in Chandler, AZ, designed and engineered by companies out of state, possibly managed by an out of state firm with an out of state concessionaire? Don’t most players claim other states for residence, to pay the less Minnesota tax?