The Vikings are "very, very close" to reaching an agreement with Ramsey County to build a stadium in Arden Hills, according to a Ramsey County commissioner involved in negotiations. With backers of a new stadium on the site of the Metrodome scrambling to put together a financing proposal as the Legislature's session approaches a May 23 adjournment, the developments appear to make the notion of the east metro landing the team — originally presumed to be a long shot — a real possibility.