{"id":4658,"date":"2012-09-28T11:08:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T16:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4658"},"modified":"2012-09-28T11:08:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T16:08:59","slug":"architect-chosen-to-design-new-vikes-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4658","title":{"rendered":"Architect Chosen To Design New Vikes Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Vikingsstaddrawing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4659\" title=\"Vikingsstaddrawing\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Vikingsstaddrawing-150x121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a>\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; The architect who designed stadiums for the Dallas Cowboys and Indianapolis Colts has been chosen to design the<br \/>\nMinnesota Vikings&#8217; new stadium.<br \/>\n\u00a0The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority announced the $34 million contract Friday with HKS Sports &amp; Entertainment Group.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Authority Chairwoman Michelle Kelm-Helgen says the stadium<br \/>\nauthority and the Vikings made the choice together.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 HKS beat out four other firms bidding to design the $975 million<br \/>\nstadium on the site of the Metrodome, the team&#8217;s current home on<br \/>\nthe eastern edge of downtown Minneapolis.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Groundbreaking on the new stadium is expected next year, with a<br \/>\ngoal of opening by 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; The architect who designed stadiums for the Dallas Cowboys and Indianapolis Colts has been chosen to design the Minnesota Vikings&#8217; new stadium. \u00a0The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority announced the $34 million contract Friday with HKS Sports &amp; Entertainment Group. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Authority Chairwoman Michelle Kelm-Helgen says the stadium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4660,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions\/4660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}