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Bay Area, Houston land Super Bowls

The NFL sent a clear message about stadium politics Tuesday, awarding the 50th Super Bowl in 2016 to the San Francisco 49ers’ new stadium over the Miami Dolphins’ facility. NFL owners reiterated the message by also rejecting Miami for the 51st Super Bowl, awarding the 2017 game to Houston instead. ...

Readers write, May 20

FIREARMS DEATHS Keep kids safe, don’t leave guns unsecured I applaud the AJC for the front-page story detailing the death toll for Georgia’s children from gun violence (“Ga. child gun deaths mount,” News, May 12). Mass shootings like those which occurred in Newtown are horrendous, but focusing solely on these ...

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FALCONS STADIUM Response to “NFL uses a silver linings playbook,” Sports, May 12 Kudos to Jeff Schultz for his opening the eyes of readers in his column. He writes “how often local politicians, and sometimes fans, view sports owners as relative cinematic heroes, willing to do anything to please them. ...

Stadium contractor finalists named

Plans for the new Atlanta Falcons stadium moved ahead Friday as five construction firms made the short list to become the lead contractor for the billion-dollar project.The finalists are Holder Construction of Atlanta; Arizona-based Hunt Construction Group; Turner Construction Co. and Skanska USA, both with corporate offices in New York; ...

Georgia World Congress Center Authority board members view a rendering of one of the prototype designs that includes a 360 degree video screen. BOB ANDRES / BANDRES@AJC.COM

Stadiums seek to compete with comforts of home

For an important job interview, architect Bill Johnson prepared a slide presentation that included a photo of a fan settling into a plush seat in his basement to watch an NFL game on a high-definition big-screen TV, surrounded by all the comforts of a sports aficionado’s home. “This is the ...

Blank, NFL owners always get their way

Maybe it comes from growing up in Los Angeles and living among the glitterati. But I’ve always been immune to the whole celebrity thing. I had friends in school who were sons and daughters of actors. I worked at a jewelry-and-trinkets stand in Venice Beach, where movies and television shows ...

Response to recent conversation

Last week’s discussion of the Atlanta Falcons stadium focused on poor neighborhoods in the shadow of the proposed billion-dollar venue. Specifically, how might they fare? Here is a sampling of reader comments. D.C.: This sounds really great, until the reality of the dismal situation crashes through. Many of the folks ...

Rock concert went over like a Led Zeppelin

What was once the domain of athletes and hot dog-chewing baseball fans became the site for the opening concert of one of rock n’ roll’s biggest tours of the 1970s. On May 4 Led Zeppelin launched their 1973 North American tour at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. A record-setting 49,236 ticket holders ...

Stadium neighborhoods will see renaissance

Many families living in the western portion of downtown and the historic neighborhoods of Vine City and English Avenue have faced difficult economic and social challenges. Struggling schools, high unemployment, persistent crime, poor housing and other challenges feed into and perpetuate one another. On top of that, the Great Recession ...

Stadium a vehicle for transformation

The Rev. Anthony A.W. Motley has a message for people who wonder what adjacent neighborhoods hope to glean from the new Atlanta Falcons stadium being built in their midst. It’s simple, not profound at all. “We want what the Buckhead kids have,” said Motley, pastor of Lindsay Street Baptist Church ...

Poor planning for poor neighborhoods

Athletics and athletic competition are wonderful and exciting. But a poor city subsidizing a private sports business by $500 million-plus is morally repugnant — as is Atlanta businesses using state government to circumvent local political control. This is the latest stadium to be sited just outside, or on the periphery ...

The construction of the Georgia Dome in 1992 cut off the Vine City neighborhood, creating many dead end streets and traffic issues on game days for residents. A new stadium site just north of the current location could have additional impact on the neighborhood.

Moderator’s introduction

Neighborhoods in the shadow of the proposed new Falcons stadium have been promised social and economic benefits from the project. Will they see them? Today’s guest columnists offer their perspectives, while I interview the pastor of Lindsay Street Baptist Church, an anchor of the English Avenue community. Guest columnists: Stadium ...

Apr. 5, 2013 Atlanta: Atlanta police detective, B. Cartwright keeps an eye on Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd at Northside Drive near the Georgia Dome where the Final Four games will be played. Atlanta police will have a noticeable increased visibility throughout downtown Atlanta during the Final Four events. Atlanta police spokeswoman Elizabeth Espy had the following suggestions for drivers "who absolutely must drive into the city": Coming from the north, exit I-75 at Northside Drive and follow it south to the Dome. Other exits from I-75/85 southbound include Williams Street or Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, but both of these are expected to back up early. From the South, drivers on I-75/85 should take the International Boulevard, Fulton Street or Central Avenue exits. Fans coming in on I-20 east should use the Windsor/Spring Street exit, while the best exits on I-20 west are Capitol Avenue or Windsor Street. JOHN SPINK / JSPINK@AJC.COM

Deal with stadium architect up for approval vote

The Atlanta Falcons and the Georgia World Congress Center Authority have negotiated a deal with a Kansas City-based architecture firm to design Atlanta’s new retractable-roof stadium. The agreement with 360 Architecture is subject to the approval of the GWCCA board, which will vote on it Tuesday. If the board approves ...

Clemson defeats LSU 25-24 with a last second field goal by Chandler Catanzaro (39) to win the Chick-fil-A Bowl in Atlanta on Monday, Dec. 31, 2012.

Atlanta lands role in College Football Playoff

From the Olympics to Super Bowls to Final Fours, Atlanta has a rich record of hosting marquee sporting events. Another is on the way. College football’s new four-team playoff — scheduled to start with the 2014 season and expected to immediately become a mega-event in U.S. sports — carved out ...

New playoff gets straight-forward name

Eager to turn the page from the complex and convoluted BCS era, college football’s power brokers gave the most basic name imaginable to the four-team playoff that will crown the national champion starting with the 2014 season. They announced Tuesday that the new event will be branded simply “College Football ...

How college football’s new playoff will work

As soon as a national college-football playoff was approved last year, Chick-fil-A Bowl officials began eyeing a role for Atlanta in what will become one of the marquee events in U.S. sports. The bowl submitted a formal bid last month to become one of the rotating hosts of semifinal games. ...

The roof of the new Falcons stadium -- unlike that of the Georgia Dome -- will be retractable.

K.C. firm is top choice to design Falcons stadium

A Kansas City-based architecture firm that designed a new home for New York’s two NFL teams is the top choice to design Atlanta’s new retractable-roof stadium. The Falcons and the Georgia World Congress Center Authority have chosen 360 Architecture as the “apparent awardee” of the lead architect job, according to ...

Fans leave the Georgia Dome after the Atlanta Falcons lost to the San Francisco 49er 28 to 24 during the NFC Championship game on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013.

Five firms vie for Falcons stadium design job

Downtown Atlanta is assured of a new Falcons stadium after a flurry of recent votes and a dollop of public funding. Now backers must determine what the $1 billion facility will look like. Team executives and Georgia World Congress Center leaders wrapped up two days of interviews on Tuesday with ...

Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank sits for an exclusive interview with the AJC at the Arthur Blank Family Foundation offices on April 8, 2013.

Blank on stadium: With politics done, ‘the fun starts’

Now that the political hurdles for a new downtown stadium have been cleared, Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank is looking forward to what he calls “the fun part”: designing his team’s dream home. In an exclusive hour-long interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution — his first interview since partial public funding ...

State Road and Tollway Authority executive director Gena Evans (left) talks with Gov. Sonny Perdue during a board meeting in front of the press at the Governor's office. The board voted to approve the extension of the GA 400 tolls.

Former state toll director was moonlighting, says others do, too

Gena Evans, the former director of the State Road and Tollway Authority, left state government to concentrate more on her private consulting, which she has been doing on the side for years while director of the authority, she said. Evans said her private clients posed no conflict of interest for ...

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