While the concept isn’t new, we’re seeing community benefits agreements pop up in discussions of new and existing MLB ballpark funding discussions. Here’s a look at what’s involved. (more…)
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Target Field’s Metropolitan Club Set for 2018 Makeover
Big change set for Target Field in 2018: the right-field Metropolitan Club, limited to season-ticket holders since the ballpark opened, will be renovated with openable windows and available to any Minnesota Twins ticket holder. (more…)
Target Field Debt Could Be Paid Down Early
Debt on Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins, could be paid off a decade early thanks to a robust economy generating higher-than-anticipated sales-tax receipts, lower interest rates and refinancing of the original bonds used to back the project. (more…)
Twins Propose Target Field Light Upgrade
If approved, a plan from the Minnesota Twins will lead to more than $1 million worth of lighting upgrades at Target Field by the start of the 2017 season. (more…)
Twins, Hennepin County planning major transit hub at Target Field
It’s billed as something comparable to Grand Central Terminal, as $79.3 million transit hub Target Field Station is set to open in 2014 next to Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins. Target Field was designed with transit in mind; when the ballpark opened, the lone light-rail transit line in the Twin Cities, the Hiawatha […]
Twins to pitch for 2014 All-Star Game
The Minnesota Twins plan on pitching for the 2014 All-Star Game and will spend more than a million dollars on improvements to Target Field this offseason. The improvements will mostly be on the unglamorous side — improved WiFi, new carpeting, more photos and team displays — but they will include a new broze statue of […]
Target Field big tax winner for Minnesota, Minneapolis
Tax revenues generated by Target Field, the new home of the Minnesota Twins, were significantly higher in 2010 than in 2009, when the team wrapped up a final season in the Metrodome. How much higher? Well, the state of Minnesota pulled in $11.6 million from fans at Target Field, $6.6 million higher than in 2009. […]
New at Target Field for 2011: More signage and free WiFi
The Minnesota Twins unveiled a host of improvements to Target Field for the 2011 season, including more signage visible from areas unable to see the main scoreboard, more local foods, free WiFi and more. The biggest change fans will see at Target Field, the 2010 Ballpark Digest Ballpark of the Year, will come in the […]