Heck, the Atlanta area is currently in the process of building both a new football stadium (estimated cost: $1.4 billion) to replace the Georgia Dome and a new baseball stadium (estimated cost: $622 million) to replace Turner Field, for reasons that have never been clearly justified. (Except, perhaps, for the new football stadium, which is rationalized by, “Atlanta will never host another Super Bowl unless we build a new stadium.”) It’s not like the existing stadiums are not quite adequate for their ostensible purposes.
Heck, the Atlanta area is currently in the process of building both a new football stadium (estimated cost: $1.4 billion) to replace the Georgia Dome and a new baseball stadium (estimated cost: $622 million) to replace Turner Field, for reasons that have never been clearly justified. (Except, perhaps, for the new football stadium, which is rationalized by, “Atlanta will never host another Super Bowl unless we build a new stadium.”) It’s not like the existing stadiums are not quite adequate for their ostensible purposes.