Decade of Growth Virtual Event: How the Atlanta Falcons owner fought poverty & blight with the vision of a new stadium

The building of a new stadium for the Atlanta Falcons touched off a number of changes in downtown and Westside Atlanta. In April 2014, Major League Soccer announced that Atlanta had been awarded the league's 22nd team, to be owned by Falcons owner Arthur Blank and to begin play in 2017 in Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Atlanta in 2016 won the bid to host Super Bowl LIII in February 2019 in the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The $1.5 billion stadium opened in August 2017 with the Atlanta Falcons playing the…