How much did Mercedes-Benz Stadium cost to build?
Mercedes-Benz Stadium is the retractable-roof stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, that replaced the Georgia Dome as the home of the Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United FC and officially opened on 26 August 2017. It is owned by the Georgia World Congress Center Authority, and under the stadium deal the Falcons are responsible for construction cost overruns. In June 2016 the authority's project status report projected a total project cost of 1.5 billion dollars after 199.5 million dollars of change orders.
Published project estimate
$1.5 billion
Cost basis: 2016
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Basis of the published figure
Published project estimate2016
Project record
Opened or launched
ajc.com26 August 2017