Local media got a tour of the under construction Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Downtown on Thursday. The stadium, slated to open next spring, will be home field for the Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United FC. It will also host the Super Bowl in 2019. Our contributing photographer Colin Potts snapped these photos. Be sure to see more in our July print issue.

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Collin Kelley is the executive editor of Atlanta Intown, Georgia Voice, and the Rough Draft newsletter. He has been a journalist for nearly four decades and is also an award-winning poet and novelist.