Falcons: Falcons vow to be in new stadium by 2017

[babuka]

I don't think most fans on the message boards want it downtown anyways. I was really hoping for the Doraville site, but that didn't work out. The current location is far from family friendly. Tailgating sucks. The dome isn't full on kickoff because you have to leave the tailgate 45 minutes before kickoff to walk forever. And you leave your car in some busted up, half gravel, half fenced in parking lot. Not shady at all. Can't even see the Dome from a lot of tailgating spots. It is not like the access is great now. Getting to some of the really close parking lots for people who don't go to the game much requires a secret decoder ring. You think the road takes you to the parking lot until you realize you are driving "over" the parking lot and in reality you have to make like 6 turns down one way streets to get where you want to be.

[Drathdon]

As a visitor to Atlanta, with my kids, for game day, I was hoping for a suburbs site with tons of parking and tailgating. I still pray they find a way to make that happen.

If they could fix the parking and add to the fan experience, the new stadium is a great idea. If they don't, why spend so much money for nothing of value gained?

[juraitwaluzka]

(02-15-2013 11:41 PM)babuka Wrote:  I don't think most fans on the message boards want it downtown anyways. I was really hoping for the Doraville site, but that didn't work out. The current location is far from family friendly. Tailgating sucks. The dome isn't full on kickoff because you have to leave the tailgate 45 minutes before kickoff to walk forever. And you leave your car in some busted up, half gravel, half fenced in parking lot. Not shady at all. Can't even see the Dome from a lot of tailgating spots. It is not like the access is great now. Getting to some of the really close parking lots for people who don't go to the game much requires a secret decoder ring. You think the road takes you to the parking lot until you realize you are driving "over" the parking lot and in reality you have to make like 6 turns down one way streets to get where you want to be.

This is it exactly.

[Aftermath]

(02-15-2013 12:01 PM)Beef Wrote:  I just love how the people in the neighborhoods surrounding the Dome are demanding funds. Like Why? Why the fuck do you deserve money from this project to fix up your neighborhood? How about you create a freaking neighborhood association and pay for thie shit yourself like everybody else does? I live in a 1500 home neighborhood and pay $1000 a year in dues and our landscaping and sidewalks look tremendous along with our clubhouse and pools.

But this is the mentality of the kind of people who live downtown. Gimme gimme gimme. Where are my handouts. Where is my government free shit. Somebody else has to be responsible for this. It certainly isn't going to be us. We live in a world where the government taxes everybody so we can benefit. Whoe is us. We have been dealt a bad hand that's not our fault and its impossible to get out from under this because we're being held down by the descendants of plantation slave owners still.

Gawd I hope Blank and McKay end up moving this project to Doraville or Gwinnett just so this corrupt as fuck Atlanta city council can shoot themselves in the foot.

The location of the current dome is a shithole. There's only like 3 grassy/gravel fenced in fields to actually tailgate from across from the dome and they charge anywhere from $40 to $60 just to get in them and then there's a good chance you can come out after the game and your car have been broken in to. Then after the games, there's no freaking places to walk to worth a shit to chill, especially not for a family. It takes 2 hours to get in and 2 hours to get out unless you arrive late and leave early.

The proposal to move the new one a couple miles down the road on the other side of the WCC isn't much better. Yes there's a lot more places to build parking lots which would help tremendously with tailgating, but getting in and out would still suck. The access is aweful. And again the surrounding neighborhoods suck ass. They're filled with the same type of folks around the dome. And there's still no where worth a shit to go chill or take the family.

What kills me is now the Atlanta city council wants Blank to do a neighborhood revitalization fund for the surrounding area around the new proposed location. Like that's supposed to be the Falcons job or something.

And I know my words have likely upset a few of you, but I don't give a fuck. This is reality. You're naive if you think I'm embellishing. Being an Atlanta city council member isn't even a full time job. I have one of them working at my firm as a financial planner when he's not doing council business. I know very well the kind of stuff that goes on behind the scenes with this council. It's why I'm so sick of them. The guy I work with obviously can't give exact details and what he does tell us, his colleagues, is in strict confidence, but this city is run by a bunch of fucking morons walking around with their hands out. You want something done in Atlanta, it's gonna cost you just to get a seat at the table to bring it up, and then you have to do something for the community too or there's no chance in hell of it happening.

Blank is being a nice guy here. But his patience is only as long as he wants it to be. And I think he might be playing these clowns until they're so far over the line he can pull the deal off the table and be totally free and clear of negative sentiment. I think he's trying to get to a point where he can go outside of downtown and Atlanta and not catch heat over it. Just watch and see. I wouldn't be surprised if the new stadium ends up in the burbs.

spot on! I did a double take myself when I came to the part about local neighborhoods demanding handouts. Would much prefer the stadium to be in the burbs. No sense in building a billion dollar stadium in a shithole with little parking and terrible transportation. Move that bitch to the burbs and surround it with parking.

[phocis850]

Beef was dead on but missed one important and key fact.

These dead beats in houses next to the current dome, lease out their yards for parking at $20 a pop. With 10 cars in each yard, they get $200 every Sunday for not doing a damn thing.

I couldn't find parking anywhere once and ended up paying to park in this guys yard. Guy flashed his gun and said to make sure I pay. I gave him $20 and sang a quick song with big mama (400 lbs of goodness) and went on my way.

Learned, take Marta.

Same issues with Turner Field on a full house night. Broke ass people controlling parking lots they don't own to make a buck.

You've been given a handout. You didn't/haven't done anything with it because it's easy money.

LIFE ISN'T EASY. Work hard, try and get somewhere in life, and help others along the way. That's all we should be looking to do.

I hope they move the new stadium to a rich as hell kinda place that is surrounded by HOA's.

[Koyukon]

(02-16-2013 06:55 AM)Aftermath Wrote:  spot on! I did a double take myself when I came to the part about local neighborhoods demanding handouts. Would much prefer the stadium to be in the burbs. No sense in building a billion dollar stadium in a shithole with little parking and terrible transportation. Move that bitch to the burbs and surround it with parking.

spot on!