TCF Bank Stadium (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
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TCF Bank Stadium is the on-campus home stadium of the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers football team of the Big Ten Conference in the Prospect Park neighbourhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The current capacity of the horseshoe-style stadium is 50,805 with 39 luxury boxes, 59 loge boxes, and 300 indoor club seats. its design is able to support future expansion to about 80,000. The stadium is laid out in an east-west configuration with the open end facing campus. The scoreboard at the west endzone was designed and built by Daktronics at a cost of $9,000,000, measuring 48 ft (14.6 m) by 108 ft (32.9 m). The stadium also incorporates a tribute to the University's veterans. The stadium is a LEED Silver certified building.
TCF Bank Stadium marks the return of Gopher Football to the campus after 27 years at the Metrodome. It was constructed from September 2006 to September 2009 at a cost of $288,500,000. TCF Financial Corporation is paying $35,000,000 for the naming rights to the stadium over 25 years. The stadium was designed by HOK Sport Venue Event.
TCF Bank Stadium provides the University of Minnesota Marching Band with new storage, rehearsal, and locker facilities. The stadium can also be used for intramural sports, career fairs, graduation ceremonies, and outdoor ice hockey games.
After the Metrodome's roof collapsed on December 14, 2010, the Minnesota Vikings hosted a game in the stadium against the Chicago Bears on December 20. The stadium became the temporary home of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League for the 2014 and 2015 seasons while their new U.S. Bank Stadium was being built.
TCF Bank Stadium marks the return of Gopher Football to the campus after 27 years at the Metrodome. It was constructed from September 2006 to September 2009 at a cost of $288,500,000. TCF Financial Corporation is paying $35,000,000 for the naming rights to the stadium over 25 years. The stadium was designed by HOK Sport Venue Event.
TCF Bank Stadium provides the University of Minnesota Marching Band with new storage, rehearsal, and locker facilities. The stadium can also be used for intramural sports, career fairs, graduation ceremonies, and outdoor ice hockey games.
After the Metrodome's roof collapsed on December 14, 2010, the Minnesota Vikings hosted a game in the stadium against the Chicago Bears on December 20. The stadium became the temporary home of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League for the 2014 and 2015 seasons while their new U.S. Bank Stadium was being built.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCF_Bank_Stadium
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Coordinates: 44°58'35"N 93°13'28"W
- U.S. Bank Stadium 2.7 km
- Belle Plaine Athletic Complex 60 km
- Esko High School Athletic Fields 205 km
- Lewis and Clark Park 379 km
- Cownie Sports Complex 380 km
- Dakota Dome 384 km
- Indianola Little League Baseball Complex 404 km
- Mount Michael Benedictine Abbey 476 km
- Track field 614 km
- Investors Group Field 614 km
- Stadium Village 0.5 km
- BNSF Union Yard 0.7 km
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 0.7 km
- UP East Minneapolis Yard 0.7 km
- Como Neighborhood 0.9 km
- Southeast Minneapolis 1 km
- Prospect Park 1.2 km
- Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood 1.4 km
- Seward Neighborhood 1.9 km
- Ramsey County 10 km
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