Selling Metrodome to Vikings for less than Buck Two Eighty?
State Rep. Paul Kohls, a Republican from Victoria wants to sell the Metrodome for a dollar so the Vikings will stay in Minnesota. The Representative introduced a his bill to sell the dome on Thursday. In exchange the Vikings would have to agree to stay in the state for at least 20 years or pay [...]
Coliseum Building Then and Now
Freeman’s Department Store opened in the Coliseum Building in 1917, it survived until 1975, when the commercial decline of Lake Street combined with the growth of national chains and suburban shopping malls made the inner-city Lake Street location undesirable to shoppers. At one time East Lake had five full-sized department stores. The intersection of [...]
