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Wow, those are some great prices. A much welcomed change.

I'm gonna print these out and try to price match at the next sports game I go to lol

 

[C-Drive]

Being able to buy a hot dog, a pretzel, a popcorn and a refillable 20 .oz soda for ten bucks at an NFL game feels like achieving the American Dream.

Edit - wow it's eight bucks. Even better. I used the $4 from the souvenir cup. This really does go against everything we've been led to believe about concession pricing.

I'm sure ticket prices will be higher to make sure the American Dream is achieved.

 

[Kas]

Those prices are insane. I haven't seen stuff that cheap even when I went to NASCAR races or baseball games.

Good on them for not fucking people over for food.

 

[TS-08]

I'm sure ticket prices will be higher to make sure the American Dream is achieved.

Higher than what? Unless they are higher than all or most of their peers, then the pricing is still a win.

 

[RBH]

The Super Bowl is headed back to Atlanta after a vote Tuesday by NFL owners to play Super Bowl LIII in the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium in 2019.

It will be the third Super Bowl played in Atlanta and the first since 2000.

One of four bidders for the 2019 Super Bowl, Atlanta won on the owners’ fourth ballot. Miami and Tampa were eliminated on the second ballot, leaving Atlanta vs. New Orleans for the game. After neither got the required 75 percent of the vote on the third ballot, Atlanta won by a simple majority on the fourth ballot.

Mercedes-Benz Stadium is now 3-for-3 in bids for marquee sporting events, having previously been awarded college football’s national championship game in January 2018 and college basketball’s Final Four in April 2020. The stadium is slated to open next year.

http://www.ajc.com/news/sports/football/nfl-owners-award-2019-super-bowl-to-atlanta/nrSZT/

 

[JaggedSac]

I guess I will plan to be out of town then.

 

[Violence Jack]

God rest you poor souls that have to drive into downtown during Super Bowl week. I still have nightmares of trying to get to Georgia State back in 2000 during the last Super Bowl in Atlanta.

Having the Superbowl or Olympics in your city sound like a horrible thing to deal with for day to day living.

I remember spending almost as much time sitting in traffic with my parents than I did being at the Olympics. We went the night after the bombing.

 

[Ploid 3.0]

Having the Superbowl or Olympics in your city sound like a horrible thing to deal with for day to day living.

 

[Valkyr Junkie]

Having the Superbowl or Olympics in your city sound like a horrible thing to deal with for day to day living.

I'd rent my house out for $10k for the week and GTFO.

 

[RBH]

The Falcons plan to reduce the prices on several thousand personal seat licenses in the upper level of Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Seat licenses in the four upper corners of the new stadium, which previously were priced at $1,500 and $1,250, will be re-priced between $500 and $750, according to team officials.

The change comes 17 months after the Falcons began selling PSLs — one-time fees for the right to buy season tickets – in the 70,000-seat downtown stadium, which is slated to open next year.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported last month that the Falcons had sold 29,211 PSLs, or about 45 percent of the non-suite seats in the stadium, through March 31, the latest figures available.

Michael Drake, senior vice president and chief revenue officer of Falcons parent company AMB Sports & Entertainment, said the pricing change in the upper corners resulted from fan demand for a new option after the upper-level end-zone seats, which carried the stadium’s cheapest PSL fee of $500, sold out.

“This will give us more inventory priced at points where people tell us there is demand,” Drake said. “We had people coming through the doors saying, ‘Do you have any more of that $500 inventory?’”

Four sections in each of the stadium’s upper corners – 16 sections in all – are affected by the price change. The seats are in sections 301-304, 319-322, 329-332 and 347-350.

The Falcons wouldn’t say exactly how many seats are in those sections and wouldn’t be more specific about the new prices than saying they will be in the $500-$750 range.

Drake said few seats have been sold in the affected sections to this point and that those buyers will receive a credit for the difference.

Comparable locations at the Georgia Dome also have few season-ticket accounts, he said, making the seats “un-allocated” in the seat-relocation process. By holding that inventory, he said, the Falcons maintained the flexibility to respond to fan feedback with adjusted prices in those sections at this point.

Drake said the price reduction doesn’t portend cuts to come for more expensive seats elsewhere in the stadium.

“We are too far sold through” to need to do that, he said. “The only place we could create or add a new price point is in those upper corners.”

The Falcons recently removed prices for specific seats from the Mercedes-Benz Stadium website, which Drake attributed to a switch in technology providers.

The seat-license prices range from $10,000 to $45,000 for club seats and from $500 to $5,500 for non-club seats. Down payments of 10 percent are required when sales contracts are signed, and financing is available for up to 10 years.

Proceeds of the seat-license sales go toward the cost of building the $1.4 billion stadium. PSLs are required for all seats sold as Falcons season tickets in the new stadium. In addition to the one-time PSL fee, the season tickets will range from $55 to $385 per game.

The season-ticket prices won’t change for the upper-level corner seats that are getting the new PSL prices. Season tickets for those seats cost $70 or $80 per game, depending on the row.

Separately, in a late change to the new stadium’s seating configuration and premium sales inventory, the Falcons will add loge boxes – groups of four to eight seats — at the back of the lower bowl inside the 10-yard lines on both sides and ends of the field.

There will be a total of 28 such boxes, starting at approximately $65,000 for the Falcons season with the option of purchasing Atlanta United soccer tickets for an undetermined fee.

The high-tech boxes will include table tops, wireless charging pads, virtual-reality capability and TV screens operated through smartphone apps.

The Falcons said sales have been strong for the stadium’s suites and that the loge boxes will be marketed to customers seeking a product with fewer seats than a suite.

http://www.myajc.com/news/sports/football/falcons-cut-some-upper-level-psl-prices/nrhNj/

In a late addition to Mercedes-Benz Stadium, 28 loge boxes will be built at the back of the lower seating bowl. (Rendering/Mercedes-Benz Stadium)

 

[BlackSalad]

I was able to see the construction first hand during a visit to Atlanta in May, truly impressive . Although I've seen the cost of new stadiums recently and believe the cardinals got an excellent value for their stadium at 600 million, not counting the recent upgrades to the jumbo-trons and and sound system such of course... That stadium is amazing, especially when the roof is open. It feels as open as a typical stadium while staying cool in ~90F weather.

 

[RBH]

A contract worth nearly $12.9 million to design and build a pedestrian bridge over Northside Drive, connecting the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium to the Vine City MARTA station, will come before the Atlanta City Council next week on the condition that the funding source for the project is identified.

The Council’s Utilities Committee gave conditional approval July 12 to a resolution authorizing the mayor’s office to execute a contract with Sunbelt Structures (doing business as Georgia Bridge and Concrete) and SD&C Inc. to design and build the bridge. The full Council is to take up the resolution Monday, July 18.

The bridge will be 110 feet long and about 15 feet wide. At the east, stadium end, a ramp will spiral up from a ground-level parking lot to a span crossing over Northside. On the west, MARTA end between Rhodes and Carter streets, another ramp will spiral down to the transit station.

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/conditional-ok-for-129m-falcons-stadium-bridge-con/nrxRK/

 

[jmood88]

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/conditional-ok-for-129m-falcons-stadium-bridge-con/nrxRK/

This looks like something out of Blitz: The League.

 

[RBH]

Atlanta United has surpassed 22,000 season ticket sales for its inaugural 2017 season, club president Darren Eales said Friday. The total, which can grow because there is still six more months before the team plays its first game, is believed to be the most season tickets sold by an expansion club in MLS history.

“There’s been a real sense of Atlanta United being the club of the city,” Eales said.

The total reportedly surpasses the undisclosed season-ticket packages sold by Seattle in its 2009 expansion year, when it averaged 30,897 per game. The New York Times reported that the Sounders sold 22,000 season-ticket packages in 2009. A Seattle spokesman declined to verify that total. Atlanta United’s total is based exclusively on full season-ticket pages and doesn’t include suite sales.

The total also places Atlanta United second only to the Sounders in season-ticket sales for any MLS club, according to Eales.

By comparison, the Hawks averaged 16,832 in general attendance at Philips Arena during the 2016 season. The Braves are averaging 22,904 in general attendance this season at Turner Field.

Atlanta United season tickets are available for purchase only by the approximately 11,000 members of the team’s Founders’ Club, which is still accepting members. Eales said that members who have bought season tickets have averaged 2.6 tickets. Before the sales conversion process started earlier this year, owner Arthur Blank and Eales said that more than 30,000 tickets had been pledged to be purchased.

Ticket prices range from $25-$225 per game. The most expensive seats are in the SunTrust Club at midfield and are $4,050 to see 18 home games. The least expensive tickets are $360. There are eight levels of pricing.

Eales said that eight of the 10 lower club levels have sold out and that more than 3,000 tickets have been purchased in the supporters section behind one of the goals. There are approximately 5,500 seats in the supporters section. Eales said they are going to expand the general admission seating.

“That will be the engine room of the stadium,” Eales said. “It speaks volumes for the level of support of soccer in the city.”

Eales said the club has surpassed the sales benchmarks it had set, and the team has reached a point of seeing how far it can go.

“This is new territory for an MLS club,” he said.

Eales said the sales total is remarkable because some of the aspects that drive purchases haven’t been finalized: The team still hasn’t a hired a coach, the jersey (kit) hasn’t been revealed and the schedule is unknown. The team will play on the road until June, which is when Mercedes-Benz Stadium is scheduled to open.

“For us, it’s a case of keep doing what we are doing,” Eales said. “We are a brand new club, and our Founder’s Club members are all in this together.”

http://www.ajc.com/news/sports/atlanta-united-reports-more-than-22000-season-tick/nsJRf/

 

[RBH]

Current progress:

 

[Jeffrey]

MB stadium is in Madden 17

https://youtu.be/ZARc1dKtjdE

 

[RBH]

 

[Zen_Arcade]

This looks like something out of Blitz: The League.

What a spot on comparison.

 

[storybook77]

It will be a while before my seats are installed. They have to finish the fixed roof before doing the lower bowl seating area.

 

[ColdLasagna]

Top down view looks like the shaved anus of a Siberian tiger.

 

[RBH]

 

[Brannon]

They've got the support thingies on for the Mercedes-Benz logo, so it's coming along nicely. And on an off note; unlike so many other stadiums with corporate names, this one actually looks like it should be named Mercedes-Benz.

 

[Plinko]

Looks pretty awesome. Wouldn't it have weird shadows and stuff?

Yes, which should have instantly disqualified its design. The Colts stadium does the same thing and it is brutal to watch.

 

[RBH]

Mercedes-Benz Stadium

Development cost: $1.5 billion

Upfront taxpayer commitment: $200 million bond financing

Sources of public funding: A portion of city hotel-motel tax revenue

Expected long-term public costs: Estimated $700 million-plus, including interest and maintenance costs

Team costs: $1.3 billion, plus interest and other expenses. The Falcons are financing their portion through team equity, debt, a loan from the NFL, naming rights and other sponsorships and the sale of personal seat licenses

Team commitments: 30-year lease, $15 million for community redevelopment, millions more for infrastructure, and minority- and women-owned business commitments



SunTrust Park

Development cost: $672 million

Upfront taxpayer commitment: $376 million in construction bonds and financing charges, with the Braves paying a portion of annual debt for 30 years.

Sources of public funding: Current hotel-motel tax revenue, a new lodging fee for a bus system, a rental car fee, a Cumberland district tax that raises the millage rate on businesses and apartments near Cumberland Mall and a portion of property taxes currently going to service the debt on parks bonds.

Expected long-term public costs: More than $500 million including interest and $35 million in capital maintenance over 30 years, plus certain transportation improvements.

Team costs: The Braves are providing $280 million up front in equity and financing, and the team will pay $6.1 million per year for 30 years toward stadium bonds issued by the county totaling more than $180 million. The Braves also have sold naming rights and other sponsorships.

Team commitments: A 30-year lease at SunTrust Park. The Braves and its development partners are fully funding construction of the $550 million Battery Atlanta mixed-use project. The combined project is valued at more than $1.2 billion.



Philips Arena

Projected renovation cost: $192.5 million

Upfront taxpayer commitment: $142.5 million

Sources of public funding: An extension of the city’s rental car tax, approved by state lawmakers earlier this year, and proceeds from Turner Field and other expected city land sales. A ticket surcharge for long-term maintenance costs.

Expected long-term public costs: Interest and other long-term expenses not immediately known.

Team costs: $50 million upfront, annual payments of $5.9 million starting in 2029, totaling more than $100 million. The team controls the naming rights revenue. The deal with Philips ends in 2019.

Team commitments: 18-year lease extension, minority- and women-owned business commitments and $200 million break-up fee for early termination of the lease.

Sources: AJC archives, Cobb County deal documents, information released by the city of Atlanta.

http://www.myajc.com/news/news/loca...-ups-its-bet-on-sports-with-hawks-deal/ns4Gc/

 

[RBH]

Mercedes-Benz Stadium officials announced Wednesday the lineup of restaurant partners that will be featured in the new Falcons stadium when it opens next year.

The partners, mostly Atlanta-based, will offer menu items “priced comparably or the same as what is found in their respective restaurants,” according to the announcement.

Here’s the lineup provided by stadium officials:

• Antico pizza

• Bruster’s Real Ice Cream

• Chick-fil-A

• Golden Brown & Delicious, a Southern concept from Concentrics Restaurants

• Delia’s Chicken Sausage

• Farm Burger, locally-sourced grass-fed beef burgers

• Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q

• Iberian Pig, modern Spanish fare by Castellucci Hospitality Group

• Jim ‘N Nicks barbeque

• Kevin Gillespie’s Gamechanger, “big flavors with playful riffs on American indulgence”

• King of Pops, popsicles

• Miss D’s Popcorn (also pralines and sweets)

• Snackology 101 Market, natural and organic foods

• Sublime Doughnuts

• The Varsity, “iconic hot dogs and part of Atlanta’s history since 1928”


Mercedes-Benz Stadium and concession partner Levy Restaurants polled some 4,000 Falcons and Atlanta United fans about the types of food and restaurants they want in the stadium, according to the announcement.

Earlier this year, the stadium unveiled a plan to buck sports-industry tradition with sharply reduced prices on some popular concession-stand items, including $2 hot dogs, $2 soft drinks (with free refills) and $3 nachos.

Mercedes-Benz Stadium, scheduled to open next summer, will be home to the Falcons and the Atlanta United soccer team. College football’s national championship game will be played there in January 2018, the Super Bowl in February 2019 and college basketball’s Final Four in April 2020.

http://www.ajc.com/sports/football/...s-restaurant-partners/Aay0h3P90GbFUiDHtl9VYL/

 

[Katori]

That's a nice menu and I have a friend that has a PSL, might catch an Atlanta United match.

 

[smokeymicpot]

Chick fil a open for the first time on a sunday.

 

[TheCochese]

Chick fil a open for the first time on a sunday.

Not necessarily. Remember Atlanta FC will be playing there, along with the SEC Football championship, CFA kickoff games, Final Fours, etc.

 

[jstripes]

Love the sad telco box on the lawn.

 

[RBH]

ATLANTA -- Atlanta United will be the first sporting event to play in the new $1.5 billion Mercedes-Benz Stadium opening this year, the Arthur Blank Group announced on Friday.

Atlanta United, an MLS expansion team beginning competition in March, will play its first regular season game at the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium stadium on July 30. The team's inaugural schedule will be released next week and will play its first home games at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Georgia Tech before moving into the new stadium.

The Atlanta Falcons will play two preseason NFL games and the season opener in August at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The team's schedule will be announced in the spring. There will also be a "grand opening event" followed by two concerts in August. The concerts will be announced later in 2017.

The first two college football games at Mercedes-Benz Stadium will be the Chick-fil-A Kickoff game between Alabama and Florida State on Sept. 2. Two days later, Tennessee and Georgia Tech will play.

The Georgia Dome's final event will be in March, and then a demolition date will be set.

http://www.11alive.com/sports/atlan...ting-event-in-mercedes-benz-stadium/382967265

 

[smokeandmirrors]

that thing is going to be packed as fuck year round. gonna need to keep replacing the turf so it doesnt turn into flat carpet.

 

[FalsettoVibe]

Really cool looking stadium.

 

[Biske]

So that's why like 3/4ths of the most expensive stadiums on the planet are here?

You can argue that the new meadowlands stadium or jerryworld are architecturally boring, but I don't see how anyone could say with a straight face that they are boring because they aimed for 'cost efficiency'.

Yeah, when tax payers foot the bill and they get all the profit, it's not like they give a damn

 

[Mobile Suit Gooch]

Not really digging the look but I'm sure Vince would like to host a WM there.

Also, I just realize that The Philps arena has Atlanta spelled in front of it.

 

[Earendil]

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/conditional-ok-for-129m-falcons-stadium-bridge-con/nrxRK/

Why does it look like a snake? When you cross the bridge are you going into its mouth or its bum?

 

[RBH]

A trip to the Super Bowl for only the second time in their history came at the perfect time for the Atlanta Falcons, as sales of personal seat licenses to their new stadium have soared.

The Falcons sold 10 times the amount of personal seat licenses in the past two weeks, as compared to the average week for the six months before, said Steve Cannon, CEO of the AMB Group, the parent company of the team owned by Arthur Blank.

"We closed down the Georgia Dome in style," Cannon said, "and what our team has done has allowed us to take advantage of opening Mercedes-Benz Stadium."

Thanks to the recent push, Cannon said the team has sold more than 75 percent of the PSLs in the stadium, with 88 sections in the lower and upper bowl completely sold out. More than 90 percent of the suites are also sold out, he said.

Sales of personal seat licenses, which cover the whole stadium and range from $500 to $45,000 per seat, were said to be going slowly in early 2016, but things started turning around in May after the team announced the lowest concession prices in major team sports. A hot dog, pretzel, popcorn, water and a soda would cost $2 each, the team announced.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...nal-seat-licences-atlanta-falcons-new-stadium

The Falcons’ sales of personal seat licenses for the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium have “spiked” since the team clinched a berth in the Super Bowl, owner Arthur Blank said Friday.

“It hasn’t spiked up like 100 percent or anything close to that, but it has definitely spiked up,” Blank said. “We don’t have really a lot of seats left to sell. We do have some, so it’s helped.”

According to the most recent available figures, the Falcons had sold 41,102 seat licenses as of mid-January, up from 33,000 at the start of the season. As of mid-January, the team appeared to have about 20,000 PSLs left to sell. (Some seats, such as those in suites or sponsor deals, are excluded from the PSL inventory.)

From a business standpoint, it would be hard to imagine a better springboard into a new stadium than a Super Bowl berth, which in the Falcons’ case is just the second in the franchise’s 51-year history.

http://www.ajc.com/sports/football/falcons-psl-sales-have-spiked-blank-says/00es9sXAciL6IXpZDg9QiP/

 

[Brannon]

When you're driving towards it on Northside Dr. it looks really imposing, which is probably what they were going for.

 

[RBH]

 

[RBH]

Falcons officials, who said March 29 they would update the construction schedule for Mercedes-Benz Stadium within seven to 10 days, now say it will take a while longer to assess the timeline.

That leaves open the question of whether the downtown stadium will host its first event as scheduled July 30 or be delayed for the third time.

“We don’t expect to have an update for at least a week,” Brett Jewkes, senior vice president and chief communications officer of Falcons parent company AMB Group, said Friday.

The construction teams “are going around the clock, and it’s going well, but they are still working through a lot of information and interdependent work schedules,” Jewkes said. “If and when we have anything to update, we will.”

Issues associated with the stadium’s complex retractable roof already have delayed the stadium’s opening twice, first pushing the target from March 1 to June 1 and then pushing it further to July 30, and threaten another delay.

Questions also loom about whether games could be played in the stadium before the roof is completed and fully operable, if necessary.

Mercedes-Benz Stadium’s first scheduled event is an Atlanta United soccer match July 30, followed by two more soccer matches in August and two Chick-fil-A Kickoff college football games in early September: Alabama vs. Florida State on Sept. 2 and Georgia Tech vs. Tennessee on Sept. 4. Dates for Falcons home games are expected to be announced by the NFL the week after next, along with the rest of the league’s 2017 schedule.

Gary Stokan, who runs the Chick-fil-A Kickoff event as president and CEO of Peach Bowl Inc., said this week that his organization has “full assurances from the Falcons” that the Alabama-FSU and Tech-Tennessee games can be played in the new stadium.

Stokan said there hasn’t been any discussion about whether the games would be played with the roof open or closed.

http://www.ajc.com/sports/football/...on-update-pushed-back/XBLRt6ALbcYOF68OKKUVfJ/

 

[djplaeskool]

Other prior events seem more likely to be scrubbed.
If they miss the CFB Kickoff, they dun fucked up.

 

[Vanillalite]

Been talking about this debacle on the main GT board I visit. It's been obvious for the past month or so they aren't on schedule. Waiting to give us an update isn't gonna magically fix things.

Just admit you've done fucked up, and then figure out how you'll compensate.

 

[Steejee]

http://www.ajc.com/news/sports/atlanta-united-reports-more-than-22000-season-tick/nsJRf/

Responding to an old comment, but it's hilarious to me that Atlanta has sold that many season tickets to a stadium cross purposed for Soccer, while up here in New England, home of one of the original MLS teams, we've been waiting a decade for Kraft to build a soccer specific stadium to get the Revs out of Gillette.

 

[Falchion]

Other prior events seem more likely to be scrubbed.
If they miss the CFB Kickoff, they dun fucked up.

Been talking about this debacle on the main GT board I visit. It's been obvious for the past month or so they aren't on schedule. Waiting to give us an update isn't gonna magically fix things.

Just admit you've done fucked up, and then figure out how you'll compensate.

So how far behind are they? I didn't realize it wasn't on track.

 

[Malleymal]

Went to the grounds while I was in atl during New Years... the stadium looks out of place, but the inside looks cool from the doctored images.

 

[storybook77]

I better get a prorated refund if they don't play preseason games there.

 

[dave is ok]

So how far behind are they? I didn't realize it wasn't on track.

Last I checked they were behind 3-28 weeks.

 

[Stat Flow]

Last I checked they were behind 3-28 weeks.

Brutal

 

[Dazzler]

is it going to be a turf field? or natural grass?

 

[TheCochese]

Turf. It won't get enough sunlight to do natural.

I think they are delaying reporting because they'll have to get the Dome suitable for hosting the CFA Kickoff games. They are getting that plan sorted out before they say anything, because they know it'll be the first question asked.

United aren't playing in either dome this season, I don't think.

 

[ReAxion]

can't wait til San Diego FC is a thing. you wanna talk season ticket records....