Where do players stay this year during TC? A Hotel? Go Home?

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I would guess that the hotel on site would be more for generating revenue for the team during the camp days that are open to the public.  they are making Zygi world... kinda like they should have done up on the munitions site only it would have been much more profitable to have the stadium as well as the team HQ and then own all the developmental rights to the rest of the area.

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@JimmyinSD said:
I would guess that the hotel on site would be more for generating revenue for the team during the camp days that are open to the public.  they are making Zygi world... kinda like they should have done up on the munitions site only it would have been much more profitable to have the stadium as well as the team HQ and then own all the developmental rights to the rest of the area.

NO way in hell mpls was going to let the Vikings stadium get built anywhere other than where it ended-up. As a fan I would have loved acres of parking lot to tail-gate on. 

As a MN resident, I am delighted and in awe of the transformation in Downtown Mpls East since the stadium was built. 

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@purplefaithful said:

@JimmyinSD said:
I would guess that the hotel on site would be more for generating revenue for the team during the camp days that are open to the public.  they are making Zygi world... kinda like they should have done up on the munitions site only it would have been much more profitable to have the stadium as well as the team HQ and then own all the developmental rights to the rest of the area.

NO way in hell mpls was going to let the Vikings stadium get built anywhere other than where it ended-up. As a fan I would have loved acres of parking lot to tail-gate on. 

As a MN resident, I am delighted and in awe of the transformation in Downtown Mpls East since the stadium was built. 

I know,   as a fan I am irked over what we ended up with for tailgating though.  It's really a pretty shitty situation that will only get worse with the continued development .

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@purplefaithful said:

@JimmyinSD said:
I would guess that the hotel on site would be more for generating revenue for the team during the camp days that are open to the public.  they are making Zygi world... kinda like they should have done up on the munitions site only it would have been much more profitable to have the stadium as well as the team HQ and then own all the developmental rights to the rest of the area.

NO way in hell mpls was going to let the Vikings stadium get built anywhere other than where it ended-up. As a fan I would have loved acres of parking lot to tail-gate on. 

As a MN resident, I am delighted and in awe of the transformation in Downtown Mpls East since the stadium was built. 

I get the tailgate thing, but putting that building in the city (connected to development unlike the dome) was the smartest thing they could've done. I was just having this conversation with a buddy at a recent Rockies game. Denver has its baseball park, it's basketball and hockey arena and its football stadium within walking distance of each other. All downtown. And downtown is BOOMING with no end in sight. And a healthy center leads to healthy suburbs. 

In the 70s and 80s the trend was to build all these things out in the suburbs, and the cities suffered. It reminds me of that Yeats poem...Turning and turning in the widening gyre. The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold..

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@purplefaithful said:

@JimmyinSD said:
I would guess that the hotel on site would be more for generating revenue for the team during the camp days that are open to the public.  they are making Zygi world... kinda like they should have done up on the munitions site only it would have been much more profitable to have the stadium as well as the team HQ and then own all the developmental rights to the rest of the area.

NO way in hell mpls was going to let the Vikings stadium get built anywhere other than where it ended-up. As a fan I would have loved acres of parking lot to tail-gate on. 

As a MN resident, I am delighted and in awe of the transformation in Downtown Mpls East since the stadium was built. 

Exactly. Arden Hills was a pipe dream but also leverage. It's amazing how different it is downtown. The tailgating situation is kind of a bummer but not really surprising. I am glad the stadium is where it is.

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Last I heard (awhile ago) the Vikings were going to buy out a hotel from mid-July through mid-August. That way they'd have their own space and the ability to meet both early in the morning and later at night. No idea if they were able to go through with that plan.