PushTheButtonMax said:

Whatever helps you sleep. Green Bay was an onside kick away from losing that game.

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Buckethead said:

Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

Falcons are losers. Losers with a new stadium.

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QuantumZebra said:

you must be a Taints fan

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RBH said:

Not really.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9...s-agree-financing-terms-new-1-billion-stadium

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From the ashes of the Georgia Dome, Atlanta's largest hotel complex (by far) could one day rise, helping accommodate the city's booming tourism and convention industry. About a year ago, plans emerged for a Georgia World Congress Center Authority high-end convention hotel next door to the new Atlanta Falcons stadium. Now, the Atlanta Business Chronicle reports, the GWCC could release a request for qualifications from developers as early as next month, in hopes of opening a 2,000-room mega-hotel (possibly with two separate towers) by 2019. (For context, Atlanta's largest hotel, the Marriott Marquis, has 1,663 rooms, and it's held the "largest" crown since opening in 1985, the ABC notes.)

Construction would obviously hinge on the Georgia Dome's demolition. If plans come to fruition, the changes in purpose for the Dome's footprint would be drastic — and quite possibly, welcome. Each concept suggests that an open, rectangular park would separate the hotel(s) tower from the Falcons' space-age origami. The intended usage for the greenspace isn't specified, but it's a safe bet that "alcohol prohibited" signs would be a waste of money.

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The Atlanta Falcons will seek $45,000 for personal seat licenses from fans who want the best seats in the new stadium under construction downtown, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned.

The Falcons plan to present their PSL pricing plan for the stadium’s club seats to the Georgia World Congress Center Authority board at a special called meeting Thursday. Board approval is required before the Falcons can proceed with sales.

The plan, obtained exclusively by the AJC on Wednesday, calls for the $45,000 fee to apply to each of 1,200 lower-bowl seats near the 50-yard line. Another 6,500 prime seats will carry PSLs ranging from $10,000 to $20,000 each.

The plan being presented Thursday covers roughly 11 percent of the seats in the 71,000-seat stadium. PSLs also will be required for all other seats sold as season tickets, but those prices won’t be set until later in the year. They will be at various price points below $10,000.

A common form of stadium financing around the NFL, but never before used by an Atlanta pro sports franchise, PSLs are one-time fees for the right to buy season tickets in a specific seat for the length of the team’s lease (30 years in the Falcons’ case). PSL owners also are able to transfer or sell the rights to their seats.


The plan the Falcons will present to the GWCCA board Thursday includes these areas of the stadium:

• The seats requiring $45,000 PSLs — representing about 1.5 percent of the building’s total seats — will be located in the lower bowl between the 45-yard lines on both sides of the stadium. These seats will include food and beverage in the Founders Club, billed as the stadium’s most exclusive space, and parking. In addition to the one-time PSL fee, tickets in these sections will be set at $385 per game ($3,850 per season) for the first three years in the stadium.
• PSLs will cost $20,000 for lower-bowl seats between the 30- and 45-yard lines and $15,000 for lower-bowl seats between the 20- and 30-yard lines. These seats will include access to 30,000-square foot Champions Club lounges located below the seats and to a patio area on the field behind the team benches. Ticket prices in these sections will be $365 and $345 per game in the stadium’s first three years.
• Higher in the stadium, above the suites level, sections of club seats between the 30-yard lines will carry PSLs costing $10,000 per seat. These seats will have access to a club space called the Piedmont Club. Tickets in these sections will cost $325 per game through the stadium’s first three years.

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potam said:

The PSLs are fees for the boxes, right? That price doesn't seem too insane.

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Mindlog said:

Damn. This is going to be a setback to that notoriously loud Atlanta home crowd.

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Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank does not know how to say “No,” and that is costing him another $100 million.

During a panel discussion at the Rotary Club of Atlanta Monday on the rejuvenation of the westside neighborhoods, Blank let it slip out that he views the “$1.5 billion stadium” as an incredible investment.

Kim Shreckengost, executive vice president for Blank’s business interests, said most of the increased amount can be attributed to the financing costs of the stadium.

Up until now, the latest estimate of what it would cost to build the new retractable roof stadium – which is currently under construction – was $1.4 billion. The initial cost estimates were $950 million, and then they climbed to $1.2 billion when the designs for the dramatic stadium were unveiled.

After the panel discussion, Blank confirmed that the price-tag on the stadium had gone up by $100 million.

For those keeping score at home, the cost of the new stadium has now spiked 50 percent since it was first announced.

“We have an owner who has a great deal of difficulty saying no,” Blank said, referring to himself. “But we are at a point where we have developed and put in place all the great
ideas that we can.”

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According to the agreement with the Georgia World Congress Center Authority, $200 million of the stadium financing are to be covered by Atlanta’s hotel-motel taxes.

Any other costs above and beyond those $200 million are legally obligated to be covered by Blank, the Atlanta Falcons, the National Football League and private financing.

In other words, the taxpayer is not liable or on the hook for the increased costs of the new stadium.

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AyaisMUsikWhore said:

And the rent will triple. Poor citizens

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Ozzy Onya A2Z said:

What a shit design functionality wise, honestly did anyone think of all those intersecting shadows affecting play? Back to the drawing board IMO.

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Fox Mulder said:

I'm fine with a 1.5 billion dollar stadium looking fucking crazy. They could easily build a boring utilitarian concrete eyesore for a fraction if they wanted. Tax payers aren't even paying that much of it.

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The Falcons will be moving into a new home for the 2017 season and they’ll get some help from the college ranks breaking in their new digs.

Alabama and Florida State will play the first college football game at the new stadium on September 2nd, 2017, when they face off in the 10th Chick-Fil-A Kickoff game. It will be the fifth appearance for the Crimson Tide in the game — they’re 4-0 in their previous appearances — and Florida State’s first time opening the season under the banner of the chicken sandwich concern.

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Georgia Tech will open the 2017 college football season on Monday, Sept. 4, against Tennessee in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game, announced Monday by Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game organizers. The 2017 date will be the first game between the former SEC rivals in 30 years.

The game will be one of the first college games played in the Falcons' state-of-the-art New Atlanta Stadium, set to open earlier that year. The game will kick off in prime time and be nationally telecast on ESPN.

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storybook77 said:

I'll be in Section C-126.

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storybook77 said:

I'll be in Section C-126.

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storybook77 said:

Thank God for the financing option. Lol

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TheAbsolution said:

I imagine it's like buying a car, right?

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TheAbsolution said:

I imagine it's like buying a car, right?

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The Atlanta Falcons will have a name for their new $1.5 billion stadium “sooner rather than later,” Rich McKay, the team’s president and CEO, told members of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce Monday.

“We’ll make that announcement ... any time now,” said McKay, who gave a breakfast audience at the Cobb Energy Centre an update on the stadium and the team as the Falcons prepare for the 2015 season.

He said construction on the stadium that will replace the Georgia Dome is 30 percent to 35 percent done. The pouring of concrete at the stadium site adjacent to the Dome is about 90 percent complete, while work on the steel structure is due to begin by the end of this month, he said.

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Looks like a tax burden to me.
Like the design though.
Would be better served as a soccer stadium.

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