Posted Jan 14, 2013, 6:22 PM
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Falcons stadium will be a hard sell, legislators say
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“It’s hard to get lawmakers to vote for something that’s polling 70-to-30 no,” Gov. Nathan Deal told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “They need to directly communicate with the public. Either way the public attitude has to be significantly changed from where it is now.”
Legislators in 2010 agreed to extend the city’s hotel-motel tax for a stadium. Under the current plan, which calls for the Georgia Dome to be demolished once the new facility is built nearby, the tax proceeds would be used to repay $300 million in construction bonds issued by the GWCCA. The Falcons would finance the rest of the construction cost.
But lawmakers must raise the GWCCA’s borrowing limit from $200 million to $300 million this year for the plan to go forward.
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