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The Georgia Dome during the 1996 Summer Olympics | |
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Address | 1 Georgia Dome Drive Northwest Atlanta, Georgia United States |
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Coordinates | 33°45′29″N 84°24′04″W / 33.758°N 84.401°W |
Public transit | Dome / GWCC / Philips Arena / CNN Center (MARTA station) Vine City (MARTA station) |
Owner | Georgia World Congress Center Authority |
Operator | Georgia World Congress Center Authority |
Capacity | Football: 71,228 Georgia State football: 28,155[4] Basketball: 71,000[5] Total Capacity: 80,000[6] |
Surface | FieldTurf (2003–2017) AstroTurf (1992–2002) |
Construction | |
Broke ground | November 22, 1989 |
Opened | September 6, 1992 |
Closed | June 9, 2017[1] |
Demolished | November 20, 2017 |
Construction cost | $214 million ($465 million in 2023 dollars[2]) |
Architect | Heery International; Rosser FABRAP International; and tvsdesign |
Project manager | Barton-Malow[3] |
Structural engineer | Weidlinger Associates[3] |
General contractor | Beers/Georgia Dome Team[3] |
Tenants | |
Peach Bowl (NCAA) (1993–2016)
Atlanta Falcons (NFL) (1992–2016)
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The Georgia Dome was a domed stadium in the Southeastern United States. Located in Atlanta between downtown to the east and Vine City to the west, it was owned and operated by the State of Georgia as part of the Georgia World Congress Center Authority. Opened in 1992, it was then the second-largest covered stadium in the world by capacity, behind the Pontiac Silverdome. Though the Georgia Dome was a profitable facility, its primary tenant, the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League, grew dissatisfied with it less than two decades after its opening and began planning for a replacement stadium. It was closed and demolished in 2017.
In addition to the Falcons, the Georgia Dome was also the home of the Georgia State University Panthers football team. It hosted two Super Bowls (XXVIII and XXXIV), 25 editions of the Peach Bowl (January 1993–December 2016) and 23 SEC Championship Games (1994−2016). In addition, the Georgia Dome also hosted several soccer matches since 2009 with attendances over 50,000. In its 25 years of operation, the Georgia Dome hosted over 1,400 events attended by over 37 million people.[7] The Georgia Dome was the only stadium in the United States to host the Summer Olympics, Super Bowl and NCAA men's basketball Final Four.[8][9][10] The Georgia Dome also hosted Wrestlemania 27 with The Rock as the host, and it was the biggest event in the venue. John Cena vs The Miz was the main event for the WWE Championship.
The Georgia Dome's successor, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, was built adjacent to the south and opened on August 26, 2017. The Georgia Dome was demolished on November 20, 2017.[11]