Atlanta Falcons looking to replace 20 year old Georgia Dome with a stadium that includes rumble seats and a bar that stretches end zone to end zone. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1624509-atlanta-falcons-reveal-potential-plans-for-new-stadium?hpt=hp_t5 1. 2. Imagine if the Texans asked to replace Reliant Stadium in 10 more years. Crazy.
Greed will one day conquer American sports as they exist in their current form. The CSN debacle has really opened my eyes to the business model. The athletes are grossly overpaid, the owners collect obscene returns on their money and all the while, we the fans are played for rubes who must bend and and quake to their every demand or be threatened with relocation, one day our backs will staighten and we will plant our feet and refuse to buckle to the corporate demands in the name of fandom.
Nope. Football is the most consistently watched program on television. Companies get most of their consumers from mass media advertising. Retail consumption drives the economy. Every penny the NFL gets out of the broadcast networks is made back many times over, up the entire commercial chain. And it keeps networks from having to produce scripted programming, which is a random crap shoot that burns millions of dollars each time. And on top of all the money they bring to corporate retail, there's the local benefit of getting 70,000 consumers in the same place, consistently; for ten weeks during questionable weather and a commercially slow part of the year, for twenty or thirty years in a row.
Sports Stadium are always terrible investments for the city. All they do is transfer money from one part of the city to another. There have been a lot of academic studies done on this subject, and their conclusions are usually they are bad investments.
The real problem is that they recently spent a ton of money to rennovate the Georgia Dome... when they just wanted a new stadium anyways. The Georgia Dome is outdated... no doubt. So is the Superdome, but they've decided to make the mistake of rennovating that. New Orleans isn't as concerned since they'll get Super Bowls there no matter what, but Atlanta certainly wants to be back in the SB rotation, and this is the only shot they have.
Both designs are terrible and probably carry billion dollar price tags. Georgia Dome may not be the greatest stadium in NFL but i expect a team to occupy a new facility at least 30 years before coming to tax payers asking for a new facility.
The current plan would put them at 25 years in the GA Dome. There were idiots for not making the GA Dome nicer. It was right after the GA Dome that new stadiums really took off and with it, much nicer and pricer venues, which made the GA Dome look dated within 10 years. Only 10 NFL stadiums are older.
Looks like a historic church doesn't want to sell the land needed to build the stadium, or is at least holding out for a fatter check. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/u...in-new-stadiums-path.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Wonder exactly where the site will be. The GA Dome and Phillips Arena are basically across the street from each other, with Turner Field ever so slightly south.
judging by the renderings, you'll be close enough to see the skyline through the glass in the endzone and this was in the article: The next step is to choose a site for the stadium—the preferred one is just south of the Georgia Dome, but two churches must be acquired before work can start. The city and state are currently in negotiations to buy the land, and if all goes smoothly, ground will be broken in early 2014. The city will pay for $200 million of the construction, and "potentially several times that" to maintain and operate the stadium through 2050.
as someone who has never been to atlanta. why do they need domed stadiums. is it that hot there like in houston?
