06-27-2019, 06:02 PM
Once the anchor was laid (USB Stadium) they've really accelerated their impact and footprint in MN. This is "big boy stuff" not some small pockets of development...
Wilfs expand the Minnesota Vikings' real estate partnership at the team's Eagan campus![[Image: 1561650148_08+1006766694+HOTEL090618.jpg...pr=2&w=525]](https://stmedia.stimg.co/1561650148_08+1006766694+HOTEL090618.jpg?auto=compress&crop=faces&dpr=2&w=525)
The team behind development of the Minnesota Vikings' campus in Eagan is growing, along with the physical transformation of the site once known as the world headquarters of Northwest Airlines.St. Paul-based Ecolab announced Thursday morning that it is joining a group of investors backing development of a four-star hotel under construction on the Viking Lakes property, the home and training facility of the NFL team since it opened just over a year ago.
Ecolab CEO Doug Baker said the partnership with MV Eagan Ventures, owned by team owners Zygi and Mark Wilf along with their cousin Lenny, makes sense given that the company has a 2,000-employee research and development facility within a mile of the hotel.
"This is going to give us a great opportunity to have a working lab right there," Baker said.
The hotel, already pushing five stories of its eventual 14, is scheduled to open in October 2020, according to Don Becker, executive vice president of real estate and strategic development for the Vikings.
The Nordic-styled hotel will have 320 rooms as well as lots of conference space to court corporate events. The Vikings will stay there during summer training camp and fans can join them, Becker said.
The hotel is the second phase of the development of the parcel acquired by the Wilfs. The project already includes the full service Twin Cities Orthopedics clinic; next up is the residential phase, beginning with some 300 units of an eventual 1,000.
http://www.startribune.com/wilfs-expand-...511895862/
Wilfs expand the Minnesota Vikings' real estate partnership at the team's Eagan campus
The team behind development of the Minnesota Vikings' campus in Eagan is growing, along with the physical transformation of the site once known as the world headquarters of Northwest Airlines.St. Paul-based Ecolab announced Thursday morning that it is joining a group of investors backing development of a four-star hotel under construction on the Viking Lakes property, the home and training facility of the NFL team since it opened just over a year ago.
Ecolab CEO Doug Baker said the partnership with MV Eagan Ventures, owned by team owners Zygi and Mark Wilf along with their cousin Lenny, makes sense given that the company has a 2,000-employee research and development facility within a mile of the hotel.
"This is going to give us a great opportunity to have a working lab right there," Baker said.
The hotel, already pushing five stories of its eventual 14, is scheduled to open in October 2020, according to Don Becker, executive vice president of real estate and strategic development for the Vikings.
The Nordic-styled hotel will have 320 rooms as well as lots of conference space to court corporate events. The Vikings will stay there during summer training camp and fans can join them, Becker said.
The hotel is the second phase of the development of the parcel acquired by the Wilfs. The project already includes the full service Twin Cities Orthopedics clinic; next up is the residential phase, beginning with some 300 units of an eventual 1,000.
http://www.startribune.com/wilfs-expand-...511895862/
