The Metropolitan Sports Center (also known as the Met Center) was an indoor arena that formerly stood in Bloomington, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The arena, which was completed in 1967, seated 15,000. It was home to the Minnesota North Stars of the NHL from 1967-1993and ABA's Minnesota Muskies. The Muskies played just one season, before moving to Miami. They were replaced by the Minnesota Pipers, who also played only one season. . The MISL Minnesota Strikers played indoor soccer at the Met Center from 1984-1988.
The Met Center was demolished in 1994 after the North Stars moved to Dallas, Texas, becoming the Dallas Stars. Three attempts were made to undertake a controlled implosion of the building, but none was sufficient to bring it down. As a result, the arena had to be demolished using the usual heavy equipment.
The Metropolitan Sports Center (also known as the MetCenter) was an indoor arena that formerly stood in Bloomington, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The MetCenter was demolished in 1994 after the North Stars moved to Dallas, Texas, becoming the Dallas Stars.
Three attempts were made to undertake a controlled implosion of the building, but none was sufficient to bring it down.
Only 17 percent of MET enrollees are families with an income level of less than $20,000, the group presumably the most in need of assistance to put their children through college.
Yet state records suggest MET is not addressing the problem it was established to solve: guaranteeing educational access for the middle class.
On the other hand if MET was designed to alleviate the concerns of upper-income parents about the rising costs of tuition then the program could be said to have succeeded admirably.
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