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Tue., May 21, 2013 11:03am
NFL owners have approved a $200 million loan for construction of a new stadium in Atlanta. The Falcons received the money Tuesday at the NFL's spring meetings. The multipurpose stadium could cost as much as $1 billion.
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Tue., April 30, 2013 12:00pm
State officials have approved an agreement with the firm that will design a new $1 billion retractable-roof stadium in downtown Atlanta.
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Fri., April 19, 2013 10:28am
The Kansas City-based architecture firm that designed the new stadium shared by the New York Jets and Giants is the top choice to design a new stadium for the Atlanta Falcons. Documents from the state of Georgia name 360 Architecture as the "apparent awardee" of the lead architect job.
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Wed., April 17, 2013 11:23am
Five architecture firms are vying for the chance to design the Atlanta Falcons' new retractable-roof stadium. Officials with the NFL Team and the Georgia World Congress Center concluded two days of interviews with the firms on Tuesday.
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Thu., April 4, 2013 2:00pm
The city of Atlanta's economic development arm has voted to approve issuing more than $200 million in bonds to help finance a new stadium for the Atlanta Falcons.
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Wed., April 3, 2013 10:00am
The city of Atlanta's economic development arm is set to hold what is likely the final public vote on a Falcons stadium deal. Invest Atlanta plans to hold the vote at a specially called meeting Thursday morning.
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Tue., March 19, 2013 10:02am
The Atlanta City Council Monday voted 11-4 to approve using city hotel-motel tax revenue to pay the $200 million public contribution for the proposed $1 billion, retractable roof stadium.
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Sat., March 16, 2013 2:00pm
Georgia World Congress Center Authority officials have voted to move forward with a plan to build a new $1 billion stadium in downtown Atlanta.
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Mon., March 4, 2013 1:00pm
Mayor Kasim Reed says details for a proposed stadium deal should be on the desks of Atlanta City Council members by the end of March. The current version of the deal calls for the city issue $200 million in bonds backed by hotel-motel tax revenue to partly fund a $1 billion stadium. The council would have to approve a funding deal.
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Wed., February 27, 2013 11:07am
Clayton County officials say they have prime land near Atlanta's airport where a new stadium for the Atlanta Falcons could be built if the team can't work out a deal for a downtown Atlanta site.
