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GlobeSt.com UPDATE: County Approves Twins Ballpark

MINNEAPOLIS-After one of the longest hearing and debates in a decade and a sharply divided vote, the Hennepin County Board voted 4-3 to ask the Minnesota Legislature for permission to finance a new $478 million stadium for the Minnesota Twins largely through an added sales tax in Hennepin County.

By Jim McCartney | Updated on May 04, 2005

MINNEAPOLIS-Hennepin County commissioners voted Tuesday to recommend a $478 million, open-air Minnesota Twins ballpark in downtown Minneapolis that would be built using a countywide sales tax increase.

A sharply divided board voted 4-3 in favor of a resolution asking the Legislature’s approval of an extra county sales tax that would help fund the new 42,000-seat ballpark. The next step will be for the county to present the proposal to the Minnesota Legislature. If it passes there, the Hennepin County Board would have to vote again to approve the tax hike.

The hearing took some four hours, then the board debated it for an additional four hours in what was one of the longest board meetings in a decade. An estimated 50 people testified and about 200 people filled the commission chambers for debate and testimony that ran about eight hours.

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