The Georgia State Stadium

THE GEORGI A STATE STADIUM have a standard rental cost depending on what spaces someone would use; we handle staffing and pass on those expenses to the renter. The first year, we tried to do the concessions in-house but in the second season, we contracted with a local concession company here in town, Premier Events. They handle all of our food and beverage and our alcohol sales. We sell beer and wine to anyone over 21 unless it’s a high school function. “When we don’t have to utilize the entire seating bowl and the field, we do utilize the other spaces in the building, like the front plaza, which is about 10-11,000 square feet of space; we actually had a really big car show out there. But this is a university building that has a football field in the middle of it, so we do have our GSU commencements and our Georgia state students and student-athletes definitely come first. If any type of concert - like we had the Foo Fighters last April - that type of thing will take a back seat to our student athletes or a football game.” Since the stadium is now part of the university, it is able to take advantage of the campus’ sustainable programs, including its recycling department, which has moved into the facility. “They bring all the stuff from campus, which is only about a mile up the road,” Hatcher says. “We’re actually the only people in the city to have a Styrofoam densifier in-house. Georgia Tech and other places around the city bring their Styrofoam to us and we recycle it for them. We’ve got a really nice recycling center here that is more than just game-day bottles and cans; it does a lot of the shredding and a lot of the plastic recycling that we now have the square footage to be able to implement.” According to Hatcher, one of the key advantages of repurposing a building that was already in use is that so much didn’t have to be done from scratch. “There are a lot of really good pieces,” he says. “We’re using 50 of the suites, the bathrooms, the concourses, things like that. The city or state didn’t have to invest double the amount of money to get what we needed.” www.chooseargus.com P R O U D P A R T N E R O F G E O R G I A S T A T E S T A D I U M ATLANTA'S PREMIERE PROVIDER OF EVENT STAFFING AND SECURITY SERVICES FOR VENUES THROUGHOUT GEORGIA One Baltimore Pl NW, Suite 120 Atlanta, GA 30308 (770) 857-0005