October 23, 2009

Atlanta suburb votes down Falcons stadium before it's even proposed

Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank has barely even started his new stadium campaign, and already prospective sites are taking themselves out of the running: The tiny city of Doraville (best known, it appears, for being the birthplace of The Atlanta Rhythm Section) voted this week to oppose any plans to build a Falcons stadium on the site of the city's shuttered GM plant. "The county seems to think a stadium would be a wonderful thing," Doraville Mayor Ray Jenkins told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Our citizens overwhelmingly are not for that." Not that anyone has actually proposed a stadium there — DeKalb County supposedly has a "conceptual plan" for one, but hasn't made anything public — but better safe than sorry.