Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey thinks that the new potential new home for the T’Wolves and Lynx “could be at the ailing City Center in downtown Minneapolis, just blocks away from their current home, Target Center,” according to Winter & Galioto of the MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE. The idea appears to be just “one of many for what could be downtown’s most seismic development opportunity.” Frey said that he would “like the new arena to be in a spot that would ‘activate’ Nicollet Mall or somewhere else downtown.” Frey is pitching City Center as having “specific advantages.” He said rather than building on bare land from the ground up, City Center provides “beautiful, pre-existing buildings with extraordinary bones that have a new life just waiting for them.” City Center, a 51-story concrete tower in a prime downtown location, was “recently put up for sale” by owner Samsung, which wants to sell the space “before the end of the year.” Minneapolis Downtown Council President & CEO Adam Duininck said that the mayor and other civic leaders are “primarily working to keep the arena in the downtown area.” Duininck added that the T’Wolves are “‘without question’ focusing their search on downtown” (MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE, 4/30).
Minneapolis mayor pitches City Center as new home for T’Wolves, Lynx
