Top Construction Companies Team To Bid For New Vikings Stadium

By Don Muret, Staff Writer, SportsBusiness Journal

Hunt Construction And Turner Construction Teaming Up To Bid For New Vikings Stadium

Hunt Construction and Turner Construction, the two biggest builders of sports facilities in North America, have teamed with Minneapolis-based contractor Kraus-Anderson to compete for the job to construct a new NFL stadium for the Vikings on the site of the Metrodome in Minneapolis. Hunt and Turner have built a combined 18 NFL facilities and constructed six of the nine retractable roof stadiums in the U.S. Hunt and Turner teamed up in '05 to bid for the new Jets-Giants stadium at the Meadowlands, a job awarded to Skanska. The Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission in Minneapolis will interview firms August 18 and select a construction manager August 21. There is still no financing for the Vikings project, which Hunt officials estimated would cost $853.5M if construction started in 2010 under a Metrodome reconstruction plan proposed by sports architect Ellerbe Becket. Kraus-Anderson’s Web site announced the details of its joint venture with Hunt and Turner.

in the bidding: Mortenson, another Twin Cities construction firm, submitted a bid on its own after initially discussing a joint venture with Barton Malow, confirmed Bill Lester, the sports commission’s Executive Dir. Mortenson is building the Twins’ new ballpark and the Univ. of Minnesota’s TCF Bank Stadium. Seven architects bid for the job to design the stadium: 360 Architecture, Crawford Architects, Ellerbe Becket, HKS, HOK Sport, RTKL and Aedas, an international firm that in May merged with Dan Meis Architects, whom developer Ed Roski hired to plan an NFL facility in the L.A. market. The sports commission will select a designer the same day as the construction manager.

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