The proposed stadium is part of a larger, $1.1-billion development along I-35, just south of 109th Avenue in Blaine. The Anoka county board already has committed up to $240 million in countywide general sales taxes to help pay for the stadium.
McCombs met with the city and county officials Friday to discuss the stadium plans and their larger project.
"We are impressed not only by the depth and extent of their plans but their passion for completing the project," McCombs says in a statement. "The Vikings have been from the outset, and remain, uncommitted to a specific site for a new stadium. At the present time, the Anoka County-Blaine proposal is very impressive."
Economic Research Associates, an international consulting firm with headquarters in Los Angeles, will be hired to study potential retail sales, sales taxes, job increases and other economic and fiscal effects of the stadium and mixed-use project.
A bill in the Legislature is seeking a $500-million Twins stadium and the new Vikings stadium.
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