(01-16-2015 01:21 PM)AtlantaTiger Wrote:  Did you notice in the video that traffic was moving on all the streets around the new stadium. Anyone that lives in Atlanta or has ever traveled to Atlanta know better than this. TRAFFIC DOES NOT FLOW FREELY.

I think it was supposed to represent a Sunday Falcons games. So at least the representation was somewhat plausible.

(01-15-2015 09:32 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  Atlanta must be doing pretty well to be able to build a $1 billion dollar stadium when they still have the Georgia dome. What are the 'bed taxes' the writer is talking about.

Nope. Crappy roads, Crappy public schools. Tons of homeless people suffering on the street.

Those roof sliders look cool, but imagine the long-term cost of maintaining them. I guess a billion dollars gets you a heavy dose of novelty with practicality as an afterthought. If one slider malfunctions, the whole system is useless.

I better go see it before Sherman burns it. Yankees just love to torch nice things.

(01-16-2015 04:31 PM)HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine Wrote:  I better go see it before Sherman burns it. Yankees just love to torch nice things.

I think Yankees only's torch slave traders and other evildoers.

(01-16-2015 08:38 AM)bullitt_60 Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 09:32 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  Atlanta must be doing pretty well to be able to build a $1 billion dollar stadium when they still have the Georgia dome. What are the 'bed taxes' the writer is talking about.

Arthur Blank is ******* us coming and going, that's how we're building that stadium. Hopefully it will be empty when it opens.

This

He is pretending he is Jerry and he is minus the 40 year loyal fan base and several Super Bowl trophies...

Cool stadium, but if I were an Atlanta taxpayer, I would be pissed. The Georgia Dome is no Jerry World but it's no Metrodome either. It's a fine stadium that still has many years of life in it. I can't imagine how they could possibly justify the $1 billion for something that's a 'want', not a 'need'. The only idea worse is the new stadium for the Braves.

It looks like a UFO and the roof is the Hyper Drive.

(01-16-2015 04:34 PM)Dr. Isaly von Yinzer Wrote:  

(01-16-2015 04:31 PM)HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine Wrote:  I better go see it before Sherman burns it. Yankees just love to torch nice things.

I think Yankees only's torch slave traders and other evildoers.

This fellow Yankee disagrees. No group of people are perfect, but I don't recall Lee burning Gettysburg or other Northern towns.

(01-16-2015 04:31 PM)HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine Wrote:  I better go see it before Sherman burns it. Yankees just love to torch nice things.

So you're what...150 years old...give or take?

No, Sherman came forward in time and, oblivious to modern day circumstances, wants to burn Atlanta again.

(01-16-2015 12:57 PM)All Dukes_All Day Wrote:  An impressive structure that should rival Jerry World. Aint nothing wrong with the Georgia Dome though and I hate how these f'ing owners continue to bamboozle cities into building these behemouths.

As I joked in one thread, one day they're going to have cities tear down stadiums on the spot after having been built like Bender Bending Rodriguez commanded of his monument on an episode of Futurama.

(01-16-2015 05:30 PM)panama Wrote:  

(01-16-2015 04:31 PM)HarmonOliphantOberlanderDevine Wrote:  I better go see it before Sherman burns it. Yankees just love to torch nice things.

So you're what...150 years old...give or take?

According to one online mental age test, I am 60.

(01-16-2015 02:31 PM)No Bull Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 09:32 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  Atlanta must be doing pretty well to be able to build a $1 billion dollar stadium when they still have the Georgia dome. What are the 'bed taxes' the writer is talking about.

Nope. Crappy roads, Crappy public schools. Tons of homeless people suffering on the street.

It's no Florida, that's for sure. We're doing just fine, thanks.

(01-16-2015 05:04 PM)prp Wrote:  Cool stadium, but if I were an Atlanta taxpayer, I would be pissed. The Georgia Dome is no Jerry World but it's no Metrodome either. It's a fine stadium that still has many years of life in it. I can't imagine how they could possibly justify the $1 billion for something that's a 'want', not a 'need'. The only idea worse is the new stadium for the Braves.

Fortunately, it's only 200 million in taxpayer dollars. The rest he's hoping to wring out of a small but shrinking fan base.

(01-16-2015 02:31 PM)No Bull Wrote:  

(01-15-2015 09:32 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  Atlanta must be doing pretty well to be able to build a $1 billion dollar stadium when they still have the Georgia dome. What are the 'bed taxes' the writer is talking about.

Nope. Crappy roads, Crappy public schools. Tons of homeless people suffering on the street.

I was just in Atlanta for the Peach Bowl, and I though it was a nice stadium. Can't believe they are building a new one.

I looked up the funding details. The Falcons are paying $1.2B of the cost themselves, and the city and county are paying $200M, plus the annual operating and maintenance costs. The city's part is being 100% funded by a 7% hotel-motel and rental car tax on visitors. The Georgia Dome will be razed, swapping places with the new stadium and serving as parking.

(01-16-2015 10:10 PM)TripleA Wrote:  I looked up the funding details. The Falcons are paying $1.2B of the cost themselves, and the city and county are paying $200M, plus the annual operating and maintenance costs. The city's part is being 100% funded by a 7% hotel-motel and rental car tax on visitors. The Georgia Dome will be razed, swapping places with the new stadium and serving as parking.

That's correct except I believe the total cost is 1.2 billion and 200 million is coming from the City. That's 200 million that could be applied to a multitude of other things, like infrastructure. The other billion will come from things like $40,000 seat licenses.

(01-16-2015 04:34 PM)Dr. Isaly von Yinzer Wrote:  I think Yankees only's torch slave traders and other evildoers.

The Lakota (and the Cheyenne, the Arapaho, etc., etc., etc.) say hello.

Cities build stadiums like Wal-Marts, when will the madness end? If it could support the format, the Falcons could play at Turner Field for the next 30 years let alone the Braves.

(01-16-2015 10:10 PM)TripleA Wrote:  I looked up the funding details. The Falcons are paying $1.2B of the cost themselves, and the city and county are paying $200M, plus the annual operating and maintenance costs.

It's a pretty good deal. Invest what you have, add a low-interest loan, for an all-but-guaranteed cash-cow revenue stream with few risks.