ATLANTA
The Georgia Dome in Atlanta was imploded at 7:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on Monday, Nov. 20. Taking a mere 12 seconds to flatten the building’s approximate 250,000 cubic yards of concrete, the implosion utilized more than 10,000 man-hours of preparation, 4,800 total pounds of strategically placed explosives and approximately six miles of detonating cord and one mile of electrical wire connections.
The Georgia Dome was the only venue to ever host the Olympics, the Super Bowl and the NCCA Men’s Final Four. The Georgia Dome hosted its final public event, Monster Jam, on March 5, 2017.
Built for $214 million by the State of Georgia and operated by the Georgia World Congress Center Authority (GWCCA), the Georgia Dome opened in 1992 and served as home to the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons for 25 years prior to the team’s move next door to Mercedes-Benz Stadium, also on the GWCCA campus. Over 1,400 events took place at the Georgia Dome, drawing 37 million guests and generating $7 billion.
Cleanup is expected to take approximately three months, laying groundwork for a 1,010-room luxury convention center hotel serving the adjacent Georgia World Congress Center. Groundbreaking is scheduled for early 2019. The site also will include a new 600-space parking deck and The Home Depot Backyard, a 13-acre greenspace designed for game day tailgating and community programming.
Here's a link to an NPR article that includes embedded video of the Georgia Dome implosion shot by WSB-TV. And here's a link to a video showing The Weather Channel’s unfortunate camera fail, as shared by AJ-C.
