It’s over for the Minnesota Vikings and Mankato.
The NFL team announced Tuesday morning that the training camp starting next week will be the Vikings’ last at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Next summer, the team will hold the 13-day preseason camp at its new headquarters in Eagan. The team’s new home is under construction just south of Hwy. 494 in Eagan on the former Northwest Airlines headquarters site. The opening is expected in March 2018 — a month after U.S. Bank Stadium plays host to the Super Bowl.
The Vikings’ Eagan campus will have a stadium that can seat up to 10,000 people, so a move north for training camp was expected as soon as the team completed the deal to leave its cramped Winter Park facilities in Eden Prairie.