Vikings Lakes TCO Performance Center

As one of Thirty Two teams that play in the National Football League, the Minnesota Vikings wanted to create a world class facility that would put their organization under one roof, attract and retain top talent and provide an asset to the community and their fan base. The result was a grand vision that transformed an old corporate headquarters, abandoned and overgrown with invasive species, into the 200 acre Viking Lakes community development and the Twin Cities Orthopedics Performance Center (TCO). The role of the Landscape Architecture team was critical in developing this grander vision – leading site master planning, creating overall development guidelines and regulations, introducing sustainability and ecological restoration, and emphasizing the importance of a unified public realm through landscape, circulation, programming and branding.