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The Atlanta City Council voted 11–4 in March 2013 to use $200 million in hotel-motel tax revenue toward a retractable-roof stadium in downtown Atlanta — the building that would open four years later as Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
In February 2013, Falcons President Rich McKay told Atlanta's City Council that the team would consider a suburban site if negotiations for a new downtown stadium collapsed — setting the stage for the public financing debate that would define the next two years.
On August 23, 2010, Guinness World Records officially certified the Georgia Aquarium as the world's largest aquarium — a distinction it had held since opening in 2005, with more than 8 million gallons of water across its exhibits.
