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Here are the opening times for gates, parking lots at stadium’s debut

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Aug 25, 2017

Mercedes-Benz Stadium opens Saturday with a Falcons-Arizona Cardinals exhibition game. If you’re planning to attend, these are the times you need to know:

Parking lots will open at 2 p.m.

The Front Porch – a 61,000-square-foot outdoor fan plaza that is within the ticketed security perimeter – will open at 4 p.m. for ticket holders. Enter through Gates 2 and 4.

Also at 4 p.m., entrance into the stadium will be permitted from the Front Porch for the Column Bar, Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q and views of the field, halo video board and LED mega-column.

The remaining gates (1 and 3) will open at 5 p.m., at which time the rest of the stadium will become accessible.

Kickoff is set for 7:06 p.m.

(Source: Mercedes-Benz Stadium.)

For more information, see the Mercedes-Benz Stadium website.

RELATED: A look at gathering spaces within the stadium.

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Tim Tucker, a long-time AJC sports reporter, often writes about the business side of the games. He also had stints as the AJC's Braves beat writer, UGA beat writer, sports notes columnist and executive sports editor. He was deputy managing editor of America's first all-sports newspaper, The National Sports Daily.

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