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Old 12-14-2012, 07:27 AM
 
Location: City of Trees
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Fear of suburban move could boost Falcons stadium deal

Keep pro sports downtown where they belong!
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Old 12-14-2012, 07:36 AM
 
Location: Kirkwood
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Pro sports belong downtown.
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Old 12-14-2012, 11:01 AM
 
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Pro sports belong downtown.
Why so? Pro sports stadiums in Atlanta have tended to be a blight on already fragile neighborhoods. The community gets nothing but the back door and huge expanses of asphalt and concrete.

Why not locate the stadium at some place like Doraville? It would be closer to the fans and have plenty of room for parking. It would also have excellent access to the freeways and MARTA.

I honestly don't see any basis for the the assertion that pro sports "belong" downtown.

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Old 12-14-2012, 11:35 AM
 
Location: Atlanta
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I say that we should keep it downtown because Mayor Reed has already prostituted himself for the conservative legislature & the business community enough as is.

So he should at least get some kind of "win" for all of that stepnfetchin' during this whole crooked process...

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Why so? Pro sports stadiums in Atlanta have tended to be a blight on already fragile neighborhoods. The community gets nothing but the back door and huge expanses of asphalt and concrete.

Why not locate the stadium at some place like Doraville? It would be closer to the fans and have plenty of room for parking. It would also have excellent access to the freeways and MARTA.

I honestly don't see any basis for the the assertion that pro sports "belong" downtown.

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Old 12-14-2012, 12:26 PM
 
Location: ATL by way of Los Angeles
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Why so? Pro sports stadiums in Atlanta have tended to be a blight on already fragile neighborhoods. The community gets nothing but the back door and huge expanses of asphalt and concrete.

Why not locate the stadium at some place like Doraville? It would be closer to the fans and have plenty of room for parking. It would also have excellent access to the freeways and MARTA.

I honestly don't see any basis for the the assertion that pro sports "belong" downtown.

Most cities have at least one of their sports facilities either in their downtown area or somewhere that is in the city itself. It usually takes something extreme or a general lack of space for a team to move out of that city's downtown area to the 'burbs.

The old GM plant in Doraville was ruled out quite some time ago, so I'm not even sure why it is still used as a potential location in arguments. In terms of other Atlanta suburbs, aside from not having transit available you will also run into the NIMBY folks. I can't say that I could blame them since most people probably purchased their homes without the thought of a new stadium being built near their subdivision.

The traffic issues would also keep a stadium out of the 'burbs. Several months ago, there were traffic nightmares when a church in Gwinnett gave out food at Coolray Field in Lawrenceville. If traffic was atrocious with a food giveaway, then imagine trying to get over 70,000 fans to a stadium using some of the same highways and byways. If anything, Downtown works mainly because there will always be at least some fans who go to see the Falcons at the Dome or the Hawks at Philips via MARTA. If you've ever been to a Falcon game, then you've see the crowds coming in and out of the train stations. If you move to the suburbs, the vehicle traffic that you already see at the Dome will multiply exponentially.
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Old 12-14-2012, 02:54 PM
 
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I can't imagine what suburb would want a football stadium in it.
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Old 12-14-2012, 04:00 PM
 
Location: Atlanta, GA
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I say that we should keep it downtown because Mayor Reed has already prostituted himself for the conservative legislature & the business community enough as is.

So he should at least get some kind of "win" for all of that stepnfetchin' during this whole crooked process...
Mayor Reed was known to be pro business before the election. I know I would not have donated or voted for him if he was not pro business.
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Old 12-14-2012, 04:50 PM
 
Location: Savannah GA
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I believe this is called "extortion" ...
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Old 12-14-2012, 09:17 PM
 
Location: MMU->ABE->ATL->ASH
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I read this .... and thought wow if our State house/senate see this, and go, wow he'll pay for the whole thing himself we dont need to give $300M to him. We can use that for my pet pork project.
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Old 12-15-2012, 09:10 AM
 
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Most cities have at least one of their sports facilities either in their downtown area or somewhere that is in the city itself. It usually takes something extreme or a general lack of space for a team to move out of that city's downtown area to the 'burbs.
Well, what about Houston, Dallas, San Diego, Miami, etc.? Don't a lot of cities have their football stadiums in the suburbs?


Another thing I have wondered about is why we haven't sold naming rights. Isn't that very common these days? That might bring in enough money to get the taxpayer off the hook for $300 million.
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