New Senate building on the rise next to Minnesota Capitol, but cost still a controversy

A new office building for state senators is rising quickly from the ground across the street from the State Capitol and is on track for completion this year, but political controversy surrounding its construction continues to reverberate at the Legislature.

“It’s one gorgeous view,” Rich Bistodeau, senior superintendent for construction firm Mortenson Construction, said Tuesday during a media tour of the building site. Bistodeau was standing on the third floor looking toward the Capitol in the foreground, and a sweeping vista of St. Paul in the background. “If you look to the southeast you can see a glimpse of the Mississippi River.”

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