The City of Atlanta has several home grown companies as potential sponsors for their new $200,000,000+ domed stadium project. While it could well be named the Coca-Cola Dome or even, (please no) the Chick-fil-A Dome, the most harmonious sounding sponsorship could come from Atlanta’s own Delta Airlines. The Delta Dome, doesn’t that sound nice?
Whatever the new facility is to be named, it will be a spectacular addition to the City of Atlanta and to the Atlanta Falcons who will make the new dome their home base. The designs have already received preliminary approval and they are nothing less than spectacular with a retractable roof and cutting edge facilities.
The future location of the dome has not been exactly pinpointed at this time but the futuristic concepts just keep rolling in. The folks putting this one together are pulling out all the stops and funding does not seem to be an issue.
The most obvious and most intriguing feature of the designs presented so far are a unique roof set up that opens like the lens on one of those old cameras or opens like a beautiful flower. The concept of the retractable roof designs has been referred to as the oculus-to-paradise Pantheon but it has been nick-named ‘the Stankonia Dome” around Atlanta.
The new facility will hold around 70,000 fans and is already throwing its name in the hat as a future Super Bowl venue. The stadium will feature several concepts new to public sports stadiums and is seen as a testing ground for the future of all such facilities.
One promised attraction in the new stadium will be a 100 yard long bar! The high-roller suites will be constructed so as to be adjustable depending on the size of the crowd and the size of their pocketbooks. There will also be an impressive selection of local restaurants represented in the new stadium.
The “Stankonia Dome” is slated to have one of the world’s most ostentatious television set ups with jumbo screens in the round and offering fans the most complete play-back coverage ever.
Soccer is also big in Atlanta and the new facility will see plenty of soccer action as well. Sponsors are already talking about having future World Cup action taking place right there in Atlanta.
The Atlanta Falcons, who will be the principal beneficiaries and the main attraction at the ‘Stankonia Dome’ have already secured a bundle from city tourism taxes which is estimated at over $200,000,000 !
