The Mankato City Council Monday night weighed the opportunity and costs of expanding the downtown Eide Bailly Parking ramp for about 16-thousand 200 dollars a stall. To pull off the expansion, footings would need to be installed to allow for an additional level to be constructed on the ramp. The footings carry a price tag between 85-thousand and 135-thousand dollars. Officials estimate the addition of 50 new parking stalls would be approximately 800-thousand dollars. "We did approach this from the standpoint of what would be the cost and how would we finance property owners interest in expanding it," says Mankato City [...]