I dont think it needs to be expanded. It needs an attached multi purpose events center funded with the lodging tax and scaled back dome upgrades funded with earnings on the 45 million dollar surplus. It can even share new restrooms with the addition and resources. I dont even think a hotel tax requires a vote and if it was a standalone vote, hotel tax passes easily. They can try to get 60% again but it needs a plan B and a sales tax and lodging tax need to be srparate
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We attended our first event (the Journey concert) at Alerus Center last night and it sure is nice having multiple ways to enter/leave the Fargodome parking lots in different directions instead of forcing everyone down one street.
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We ended up visiting a friend and parked by her apartment in the big apartment complex just north of the stadium so we avoided the long line to get into the parking lot. Getting through security was easy with some other kind of scanner and I only noticed one person had to get rescanned in the traditional metal detector. As for concessions, all we did was buy some pop before the show and I thought the lines were shorter than the Fargodome concessions. I wonder if some people rarely attend big shows because there are lines for everything at just about every large arena/stadium.
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Dem. from Rolette.
Dem. from Ft. Berthold Res.
Dem. from Wahpeton.
2 Dems are from Grand Forks.
11 Dems are from Fargo.
And holy crap I knew the ND legislature was overwhelmingly Rep., but didn't realize the extent of it until I downloaded the spreadsheet that is available at https://ndlegis.gov/contact-my-legislators. Only 16 of the 141 members are Democrats.
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In the late 80s and early 90s, North Dakota had a democratic Governor, both senators and one US rep. I'm not sure if the make-up of the state legislature at the time. I believe they were all fairly moderate Democrats or "Farmers Union Democrats as my grandfather called them."
First I'll say that I'm glad I'm not the guy trying to predict what the needs will be for the dome in the next 10, 20 and more years, or the needs of Fargo for that matter. But if the need for expansion is for the hopes and positioning of going FBS, spending that extra money doesn't seem like a great gamble. Even without FBS its going to take some real doing to get the dome sold out for every football game like it was 5 years ago.