U.S. Bank Stadium authority bans friends, family from state-owned luxury suites

Friends and family won’t be welcome anymore in the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority’s two luxury suites at U.S. Bank Stadium, a practice that ran into a public backlash last month.

“It’s important to restore the public trust and say that, for now, we’re not going to have friends and family,” MSFA Chairwoman Michele Kelm-Helgen said Friday at the panel’s monthly meeting.

The ban passed on a voice vote, but three of the four commissioners pressed Kelm-Helgen on whether the board was overreacting to public criticism.

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