MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Embattled U.S. Bank Stadium chair Michele Kelm-Helgen has resigned, saying the controversy over the use of luxury suites at the facility “has become a distraction to marketing the stadium.
“If I could go back and start over again, MSFA would have had a public discussion on the use of these suites and forbid the use of them by family and friends from the start,” Kelm-Helgen said in a written statement. “When questions about the suites use were raised, MSFA took responsibility, and then passed and implemented a new policy in December that no longer allows family and friends in the suites.