BC-FBN-SUPERBOWL-MERCEDESBENZ:AT — sports (900 words)
Normally, it takes one day, sometimes less than a full day, to prepare Mercedes-Benz Stadium for its next event.
“We can have a football game one day and then convert it to soccer the next,” said Scott Jenkins, the stadium’s general manager.
But getting the building ready for the Super Bowl — the biggest event in U.S. sports — has been a six-week process involving hundreds of contractors and consultants, he said.
The process began in December, when some spaces were emptied to be re-purposed for NFL needs. It continued this month with, to name just a few of the changes, construction of international broadcast booths in the upper deck and.