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Do you understand how road projects are funded? Do you understand how stadiums (specifically Mercedes Benz Stadium) in the modern era are funded?

And good please leave. I'll help you pack, GTFO my city PLEASE. shyt. People trying to make this fictional stadium over roads argument are the DUMBEST kinds of people on the planet. It's low hanging fruit with two things that are not in any way connected except for the fact that it's in the same state
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Hmmm...
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Is this stadium not funded (partially) with tax payer money and other sources of public funding (e.g, government bonds)? Assuming that it is...perhaps the argument could be made that the public dollars that are funding the stadium would be better suited to fund city infrastructure projects?

Am I missing something here? My understanding is that most stadiums...and city infrastructure...are funded, at least in part, by tax-payer dollars, government bonds etc

Not coming at you, just legitamely curious.
 
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AVXL said:
Do you understand how road projects are funded? Do you understand how stadiums (specifically Mercedes Benz Stadium) in the modern era are funded?

And good please leave. I'll help you pack, GTFO my city PLEASE. shyt. People trying to make this fictional stadium over roads argument are the DUMBEST kinds of people on the planet. It's low hanging fruit with two things that are not in any way connected except for the fact that it's in the same state
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LOL. There's a reason you're in Zone 4. Stop talking to me and I'll stop addressing you.
 
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levitate said:
Hmmm...
:jbhmm:
Is this stadium not funded (partially) with tax payer money and other sources of public funding (e.g, government bonds)? Assuming that it is...perhaps the argument could be made that the public dollars that are funding the stadium would be better suited to fund city infrastructure projects?

Am I missing something here? My understanding is that most stadiums...and city infrastructure...are funded, at least in part, by tax-payer dollars, government bonds etc

Not coming at you, just legitamely curious.
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Read the article below on how the MB Stadium was funded. This is from an ESPN article published in 2013

ATLANTA -- Atlanta's mayor and Falcons owner Arthur Blank have agreed to financing terms for a new $1 billion, retractable-roof stadium to replace the 20-year-old Georgia Dome and keep the team's home games in the city's downtown, the two men said Thursday.

Mayor Kasim Reed said the city would provide $200 million of construction costs through bonds backed by the city's hotel-motel tax. The Falcons franchise, owned by Home Depot co-founder Blank, would provide $800 million and be responsible for construction cost overruns.

The Falcons would pay for up to $50 million in infrastructure costs not included in the construction budget and help retire the last few years of debt on the Georgia Dome, which was publicly financed entirely using the hotel-motel tax.


Also, Blank's private foundation and the city each would spend $15 million on surrounding neighborhood development.
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Pay attention to the hotel/motel tax part of this. What type of people use hotels & motels in Atlanta? Tourists and visitors to the city. So out of towners, Personal Seat License sales and the Falcons are footing the bill for the stadium, not tax payers. Road and highway improvement and construction are government funded projects (government gets the money through bonds, taxes, etc).
 
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Atlanta stadium official: New facility ready for Falcons in August
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ATLANTA -- An Atlanta stadium official says workers are racing to complete the $1.5 billion project in the next three months after ongoing roof issues have delayed the facility's opening.

Mercedes Benz Stadium general manager Scott Jenkins told The Associated Press the building is 90 percent done, but the biggest holdup has been construction of the roof. Jenkins says the challenge has been installing the eight steel petals that would enable the retractable roof to open like a camera lens.

Jenkins expects the stadium to be completed by early August, in time for its new scheduled opening date of Aug. 26 when the Falcons host the Arizona Cardinals in an NFL preseason game.

The stadium had been set to open on July 30 with MLS Atlanta United's game against Orlando City. That match has been moved to Georgia Tech's Bobby Dodd Stadium.
 
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levitate said:
Ewww...
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Y'all brehs exaggerating about the traffic or is it really that bad?
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That aint shyt breh it takes me 2hrs easy every fukking day outchea, on any three different freeways fukkin 10, 60 or 91. No road closures or anything. Brehs were telling me traffic is bad out in atl, man that shyt was a fukken breeze :camby:
 
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:jbhmm::jbhmm::jbhmm:...there's clearly something here you want us to know, care to expound bruh?
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Two of the oldest historic churches were demolished to make room for this stadium... They were built by former slaves...with their blood, sweat and tears,,,, and just like these pulpit pimps, sold them out for money....
 
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Structural steel completed for Mercedes-Benz Stadium roof
7:00 a.m. Thursday, May 4, 2017 Atlanta Falcons
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The final piece of structural steel was lifted to the Mercedes-Benz Stadium roof on Wednesday. (Contributed photo.)

Mercedes-Benz Stadium reached an important construction milestone Wednesday afternoon.


“The last piece of structural steel just went up,” Bill Darden, president of project manager Darden & Company, told the AJC.

The eight-ton piece, 22 feet in diameter, was lifted by crane to the top of the retractable roof and placed into position 320 feet above the playing field.



“It’s affectionately and literally called the button, like the button on top of a ball cap,” Darden said. “Literally, from the blimp, it will look like a button on a ball cap.”


The piece was bolted to one of the roof’s eight retractable petals. It will act as an “umbrella” over the intersection of the eight petals when the roof is in the closed position.

While considerable work remains to be done on the retractable roof of the new Falcons stadium, Darden said the installation of the final piece of roof structural steel, which “also happens to be the last structural steel for the whole building,” was a cause for celebration.

“Oh my goodness, absolutely, it’s huge,” he said. “It’s huge factually and schedule-wise, and it’s huge emotionally.
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