STADIUM NOTES

          Promoters of a Minneapolis referendum on stadium
     spending limits announced Monday that they have gathered
     3,500 new signatures, enough to place the issue on a
     November ballot (Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 8/19)....The
     Tigers "are close" to signing a contract for about $500,000
     with the MI Minority Business Development Council "to ensure
     that minority-owned companies get a chance to work on the
     new stadium" (DETROIT NEWS, 8/18)....In an apparent change
     of plans by Boston Garden Owner Delaware North, which "had
     said it hoped to leave" the demolition of the Garden to the
     facility's next owner, the company informed the MA Bay
     Transit Authority that it "intends to immediately commence
     to demolish the existing Garden" (BOSTON GLOBE, 8/19).