ATLANTA (AP) Several high-profile failures have plagued Atlanta’s reputation on a national stage over the years: unpreparedness for ice and snow storms, a recent highway collapse and subsequent shutdown from a fire, and chronic traffic and public transportation woes.
Now, the city’s new $1.5 billion stadium – touted as a state-of-the-art facility that can help transform downtown – is facing construction setbacks with its key feature, a retractable roof that will open and close like a camera lens.
Stadium officials gave The Associated Press a recent tour – the first granted to any news outlet – of Mercedes-Benz Stadium.