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Falcons make it official: South site ‘definite’ for stadium

The Atlanta Falcons made official Monday their choice of a site for the new $1 billion stadium: the spot just south of the Georgia Dome long preferred by the city and state. “… It is now the definite site for construction of the (stadium),” Falcons president and CEO Rich McKay ...

Friendship agrees to sell for stadium

The congregation of Friendship Baptist Church overwhelming accepted on Sunday an offer to sell its facility to make way for a new football stadium. The church and nearby Mount Vernon Baptist Church are on a site preferred by city officials and the Georgia World Congress Center Authority for the new ...

Vickie G. Johnson, who described herself as a 50-year member of Mount Vernon Baptist Church, voted against the deal to sell the church property. She emerged from the church on Thursday night, Sept. 19, 2013, to tell the media the vote count.

Mount Vernon approves deal to sell property for stadium

The Mount Vernon Baptist Church congregation approved a $14.5 million deal to move, potentially making way for the new Atlanta Falcons stadium to be built on land just south of the Georgia Dome, church leaders announced Thursday night. The decision, by a vote of 116-16, came after about 90 minutes ...

Falcons tailgators Dave Clark (from left), Jonesboro, Pat Blakenship, Villa Rica, and Larry Rinicella, McDonough, raise their Falcons flag beside the Mt. Vernon Baptist Church on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013, in Atlanta. The group has been renting tailgating space on the church grounds for years. On Thursday, the congregation will vote on whether to accept an offer for the church and move to make room for the new Falcons stadium.

Mount Vernon members mum on whether to accept offer for new stadium site

If God is speaking to the congregation at Mt. Vernon Baptist Church on whether to accept $14.5 million offer, the members and the ministers are keeping his confidence. But on Sunday, the Rev. Rodney Turner told the relatively small but cheerful gathering of congregants not to miss the meeting Thursday ...

Reed: City negotiates offers with both churches needed for preferred site

An ebullient Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed confirmed Friday that offers are in place to purchase both churches that must move for the new $1 billion Atlanta Falcons stadium to be built on his preferred site. Reed confirmed at a press conference today that Mount Vernon Baptist Church leaders have tentatively ...

Churches will decide on Falcons’ stadium deals

The two churches with offers to sell their property to make way for a new Atlanta Falcons stadium plan to weigh the deals next week. Friendship Baptist, which reached a $19.5 million deal early last month to sell its property, will schedule a congregational vote on ratifying the proposed transaction, ...

Mayor Kasim Reed walks into a room for a press conference Friday afternoon at Atlanta City Hall.

Mount Vernon lowers asking price to $15.5 million for new stadium

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed announced Mount Vernon Baptist Church has lowered its asking price from $20.4 million to $15.5 million to make way for the new Atlanta Falcons stadium. The mayor stepped into talks with Mount Vernon after negotiations between the church and Georgia World Congress Center Authority representatives ended ...

Mount Vernon congregation hears from mayor in closed meeting

Mayor Kasim Reed, with help from former Mayor Andrew Young, met with the congregation of Mount Vernon Baptist Church in a closed-door meeting Tuesday, just days after negotiations to buy the facility for a new football stadium broke down. Emerging after the gathering, Young said the tone of the meeting ...

Mayor Kasim Reed held a press conference Tuesday morning to urge the GWCC to continue working toward an agreement to purchase Mount Vernon Baptist Church. The mayor also announced the city has reached an agreement on behalf of the Falcons to buy Friendship Baptist Church for $19.5 million.

South site for stadium re-emerges as mayor applies leverage

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed reclaimed the reins of the $1 billion Falcons stadium negotiations Tuesday, announcing he's done his part to secure land for his preferred site and urging state officials to do the same. In a forceful press conference, Reed said the city has reached a deal for ...

People leave Friendship Baptist Church after services Sunday, March 10, 2013. The Georgia Dome can be seen in the background.

$19.5 million deal lands stadium church

City officials have reached a $19.5 million deal on behalf of the Atlanta Falcons to buy Friendship Baptist Church, one of two churches key to the new Falcons stadium being built on the preferred “south site,” Mayor Kasim Reed said Tuesday. The church must ratify the agreement with its congregation, ...

The site north of the Georgia Dome is now considered the favored site for a new stadium for the Atlanta Falcons.

GWCCA, church $14 million apart when stadium talks stopped

Negotiations to build a new Atlanta Falcons stadium on the preferred site just south of the Georgia Dome have ended — at least for now — with the parties more than $14 million apart on the fair price of a church. Records obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution show that the ...

GWCCA breaks off negotiations with church on stadium site

The Georgia World Congress Center Authority walked away Thursday from its several-months-long attempt to acquire one of the two churches on the preferred site of the new Atlanta Falcons stadium.In a letter obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution under an open-records request, the GWCCA informed Mount Vernon Baptist Church that it ...

Stadium update: Friendship says negotiations continue

A spokesman for one of two churches that would have to be razed for the Atlanta Falcons to build a new stadium on a preferred site south of the Georgia Dome said Thursday morning that negotiations continued, but that there was still no deal.Lloyd Hawk, chairman of the board of ...

South site for Falcons stadium deemed ‘not feasible’

The Atlanta Falcons informed the Georgia World Congress Center Authority in a letter today that the preferred south site for the new stadium is not feasible at this time because the needed property hasn’t been acquired and said the focus should now turn to the alternative site north of the ...

The stadium site near the intersection of Ivan Allen Boulevard and Northside Drive. One issue with this site are the power transmission towers on the property. The possibility of building a new Falcons stadium near the intersection of Ivan Allen Boulevard and Northside Drive has awakened opposition that had been dormant when the focus was on purchasing two churches for the so-called south site. Not only are neighbors against the north site, but so are some City Council leaders, who worry it will impact improvements promised to Vine City, English Avenue and Castleberry Hill.

Key week for Falcons stadium site choice

This week could bring answers on the location of the new Atlanta Falcons stadium. The Georgia World Congress Center Authority and the Falcons face a self-imposed Thursday deadline for reaching agreements to buy two churches on the preferred site just south of the Georgia Dome. And, in advance of that ...

GWCCA executive director Frank Poe said after the meeting that two potential stadium sites remain on the table.

Two sites still in play for Falcons stadium

The site of the new Atlanta Falcons stadium remained very much in flux after a meeting today of a Georgia World Congress Center committee. GWCCA executive director Frank Poe said after the meeting that two potential stadium sites remain on the table — the preferred site immediately south of the ...

Stadium attention shifts to alternate site

With a deadline just over a week away to buy two churches on the preferred site of the new Atlanta Falcons stadium, attention appears to be shifting to Plan B. A Georgia World Congress Center Authority committee will vote Wednesday on whether to ask the state to give the Falcons ...

Group seeking to force stadium vote despite legal questions

An advocacy group faces a looming deadline to land thousands of signatures in its quest to block public money from financing a proposed $1 billion Falcons stadium. Common Cause of Georgia’s staff and volunteers have fanned out to busy street corners, packed parks and weekend events in hopes of collecting ...

Exterior of Friendship Baptist Church on Tuesday, March 26, 2013. Friendship Baptist Church is one of two churches that are on property desired for a south site for the field.

Church wants city’s help to relocate from new stadium site

Friendship Baptist Church wants the city to help it secure property for a new home if it is to agree to relocate to make room for a new downtown football stadium, a leader of the congregation says. Lloyd Hawk, chairman of the 151-year-old historic church’s board of trustees, said having ...

Rendering photographed off a video projection shows Concourse level 2. The Georgia World Congress Center Authority's executive director said the concept is site-neutral.

Falcons offer incentives to stadium builders

The Atlanta Falcons will offer financial incentives to motivate contractors to finish a new downtown stadium ahead of schedule, the team’s top executive said.The Falcons want to open the new facility by March 1, 2017, but Falcons CEO Rich McKay said the deal with its construction team offers money if ...

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