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State Farm Arena after renovations during a 2019 Hawks game vs the Chicago Bulls Shortly after acquiring the Hawks and the operating rights to Philips Arena on June 24, 2015, Tony Ressler announced his intentions of remodeling the arena to keep the Hawks in Downtown Atlanta at a cost between $150 million and $250 million.
In 2022, Atlanta police investigated 170 homicides which is the most since 1996. [26] In 2023, the Atlanta Police Department implemented Operation Heatwave which is a strategic initiative to remove more dangerous drugs, guns, and gangs from the streets of Atlanta. [27] In 2023, homicides dropped to 135, down 22% from 2022. [28]
The shooting took place on May 3, 2023, at approximately 12:00 p.m. EDT.Police were dispatched at 12:08 p.m. [5] The Atlanta Police Department (APD) issued a tweet at 12:37 p.m. urging residents to shelter in place near Northside Hospital's Midtown facility, following up reports of an active shooter situation inside the building with multiple confirmed injuries. [6]
Philips Arena (now State Farm Arena) was constructed in its place, and opened on September 18, 1999. [9] [10] [11] The demolition of the Omni forced the Hawks to split their home games for the 1997–98 and 1998–99 seasons between the Alexander Memorial Coliseum at Georgia Tech (their first home in Atlanta), and the Georgia Dome. [5] [20] [7] [8]
Everyone who moves through downtown Atlanta today passes places where innocent Black men and women were pulled from trolleys, shot The post Atlanta’s image challenged by facts of 1906 race ...
Atlanta also hosted WrestleMania XXVII in the Georgia Dome on April 3, 2011. Philips Arena hosted WWE's Survivor Series pay-per-view in 2015. The company would then return for another event, this time in 2024, where State Farm Arena would host Bad Blood. The event drew WWE's largest indoor arena gate of all time, and it was WWE's 60th sold-out ...
Year opened: 2009. Capacity: 80,000 (expandable to 100,000). Surface: SoftTop Matrix Turf. Cowboys’ record there: 77-50. Super Bowls hosted: 1 (45/XLV, 2011) "They call it ‘Jerry World ...
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