UPDATED Video: Fridley's Medtronic HQ Comes Up at Vikings Stadium Hearing

NOTE: The livestream video from Tuesday is over.

Plans for new Minnesota Vikings stadium sites have tended to miss Fridley to the north () to the south (Minneapolis) or to the east ().

But at a Minnesota Senate hearing Tuesday, Fridley was briefly at center stage.  Sen. John Marty (DFL-Roseville) asked Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission Chairman Ted Mondale cited the example of Fridley-based building its own headquarters. Why can't the Minnesota Vikings do the same with a new stadium?

Mondale responded that it was a bad comparison. The Minnesota Vikings could never make a profit if they paid the total cost of stadium.

You can watch the hearing live above or at The Uptake.

Updated (10:30 a.m.): Goodwin on Stadium Panel
Fridley could get more representation at the hearing from the two senators who represent the city. The hearing is before a joint committee of the Senate's committees on taxes and on local government. Sen. Pam Wolf (R) serves on the latter committee.

Sen. Barb Goodwin (DFL) appeared at the hearing as part of one of the panels of witnesses before the joint committee, promoting the Arden Hills stadium site.

"The City of Arden Hills has really done due diligence," Goodwin said. "If we're going to build the stadium ... Arden Hills would be a good location." The highway improvements in the area that would be needed for the stadium are needed anyway, she said.

"We don't know how we're ever going to get rid of that pollution [at the Arden Hills site] without something like this," she said.

"When you add up the debt service costs, it $37-38 million per year just for the debt service," Goodwin added. "It is much more expensive to do this than what we're figuring ... in upfront costs." Money spent on debt service can't be spent on other needs, she said.