Minnesota Vikings owner and chairman of the Minnesota Vikings Football LLC, Zygmunt "Zygi" Wilf, is a New Jersey-raised real estate developer. Wilf has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a degree from New York Law School in Manhattan. Born in Germany in 1950, Wilf is the son of Holocaust survivors who later moved to America and founded Garden Homes Development in 1954. The family-run business owns and manages more than 25M SF of retail, commercial and residential developments across the U.S., according to Bloomberg. In 2005, he and his brother Mark Wilf purchased the Vikings and have since helped fund the development of U.S. Bank Stadium, one of the largest construction projects in the history of the state. The future of the project was called into question after the two ran into some legal trouble in 2013, which resulted in a payment of $84.5M to two former business partners who were found to have been defrauded by the Wilfs in a real estate deal during the 1980s, USA Today reports. While the verdict caused some speculation about the bearing it would have on the brothers' ability to contribute their planned $477M to the $1B stadium, the concerns have proven to be unfounded. In addition to contributing the initial fund in full, the Wilfs have promised another $125M toward the project.