Clarifying comments made Monday by team owner Arthur Blank, the Falcons said today that the construction cost of their new downtown stadium hasn’t changed yet again.
Blank said during a Rotary Club of Atlanta panel discussion that the stadium would cost $1.5 billion, which would be $100 million more than the $1.4 billion “final” budget approved by the Georgia World Congress Center Authority board in December.
However, Kim Shreckengost, executive vice president of Falcons parent company AMB Group, said today that Blank was including some financing costs in Monday’s figure and that the budget to build the stadium remains $1.