Stadium Village is an area of
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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near the East Bank campus of the
University of Minnesota
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. While not an official
neighborhood of Minneapolis
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, the area is an important commercial district that serves university students with many bars and restaurants. There are plans to incorporate it into an official neighborhood of Minneapolis along with the surrounding area. It is part of Southeast Minneapolis, that part of Minneapolis on the East Bank of the Mississippi River and south of
Hennepin Avenue
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The neighborhood is centered roughly around the intersection of Oak Street SE and
Washington Avenue SE in Minneapolis. Further west on
University Avenue is the
Dinkytown
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neighborhood.
The name of the area is a reference to the old
Memorial Stadium, which was no longer used after the 1981 football season, since the University of Minnesota football team began playing in
Metrodome
The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome (commonly called the Metrodome) was a domed sports stadium in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. It opened in 1982 as a replacement for Metropolitan Stadium, the former home of the National Football League's (NFL) ...
, in downtown Minneapolis. Memorial Stadium was demolished in 1992. The area was built around the stadium and kept its name even after the stadium was replaced by the
University of Minnesota Aquatic Center and
McNamara Alumni Center. The other University of Minnesota sports arenas are also nearby. In 2009,
TCF Bank Stadium opened, near the site of the old Memorial Stadium. The University of Minnesota placed billboards promoting the new stadium with a slogan of "Stadium Village – Now with stadium".
Gallery
File:Stadium Village station in the snow.jpg, Stadium Village station in the snow.
File:Looking east in Stadium Village, Minneapolis.jpg, Looking west down Washington Ave
File:2008-0511-StadiumVillage-001.jpg, The neighborhood during the construction of the stadium
See also
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Prospect Park, Minneapolis – nearby neighborhood
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University, Minneapolis – the University Community in Minneapolis
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Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota – Main campus commercial district
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Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis – The West bank community near the University of Minnesota
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Student ghetto
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Stadium Village station – Light rail station nearby Huntington Bank stadium
References
External links
Stadium Village Commercial Association
Neighborhoods in Minneapolis
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