{"id":54063,"date":"2014-09-10T14:15:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T19:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=54063"},"modified":"2014-09-10T14:16:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T19:16:39","slug":"vikes-stadium-construction-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=54063","title":{"rendered":"Vikes stadium construction behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/newvikingsstadium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17833\" alt=\"newvikingsstadiumTHUMB\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/newvikingsstadium.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a>ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) &#8211; A Minnesota Vikings official says there is &#8220;no more wiggle room&#8221; in the construction schedule for the team&#8217;s $1 billion stadium after a completion deadline got pushed back to the end of July in 2016.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vikings vice president Lester Bagley said Wednesday that the new &#8220;substantial completion&#8221; date of July 29 will be cutting it close. It has slid by a full month since an initial schedule was adopted. The Vikings are set to hold the inaugural preseason in mid-August 2016 but Bagley says the team is banking on other soft-opening events occurring first.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The revised date was in a presentation by the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority to a legislative oversight panel. An authority official says there is an expectation of access for tours and events before the completion date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) &#8211; A Minnesota Vikings official says there is &#8220;no more wiggle room&#8221; in the construction schedule for the team&#8217;s $1 billion stadium after a completion deadline got pushed back to the end of July in 2016. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vikings vice president Lester Bagley said Wednesday that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54063","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\/54063","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=54063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54065,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54063\/revisions\/54065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}