Dome demolition delay looms amid Mercedes-Benz Stadium questions

I am not optimistic about our game on 9/4.

[UPDATE, April 18, 2017: Construction issues with Mercedes-Benz Stadium will delay the opening of the Atlanta Falcons’ new home for the third time and will keep the Georgia Dome standing for a while longer.]

Demolition of the Georgia Dome, originally expected to occur in July, could be postponed amid construction delays with its replacement, Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

“There’s no date set for the demolition,” Brett Jewkes, senior vice president and chief communications officer of Falcons parent company AMB Group, said Monday.

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Jewkes said an update on the new Falcons stadium’s construction timetable, although not a Dome demolition date, will be released Tuesday.

Issues associated with Mercedes-Benz Stadium’s complex retractable roof already have delayed the opening twice, first pushing the target from March 1 to June 1 and then pushing it back further to July 30, and now threaten another delay.

Questions also loom about whether the roof will be completed and operable when the stadium opens.

The stadium’s first scheduled event is an Atlanta United soccer match July 30, followed by two more soccer matches in August and two Chick-fil-A Kickoff college football games in early September: Alabama vs. Florida State on Sept. 2 and Georgia Tech vs. Tennessee on Sept. 4. Dates for Falcons home games are expected to be announced by the NFL later this week, along with the rest of the league’s 2017 schedule."

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