Falcons stadium cost goes up again — to $1.4 billion

The price of the new Atlanta Falcons stadium has gone up again — by $200 million.

The Falcons will tell the Georgia World Congress Center Authority board at a meeting this afternoon that the price of the retractable-roof downtown stadium has risen to $1.4 billion from the $1.2 billion the team estimated a year ago. This is the second $200 million jump, as last year’s $1.2 billion figure represented an increase from an earlier estimate of $1 billion.

In the latest figures that the Falcons will report today, the team will put the “hard costs” of building the stadium at $1.078 billion and soft costs/contingency funds at $322 million, adding up to a total budget of $1.4 billion.