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Opened August 23, 2014
The College Football Hall of Fame's present home is Atlanta's, and it is printed here once, as a boundary. The Chick-fil-A College Football Hall of Fame opened on August 23, 2014, at 250 Marietta Street NW, beside Centennial Olympic Park: 94,256 square feet, nearly twice the South Bend building, at a cost the Foundation gives as $68.5 million — trade accounts give $66.5 to $67 million, and the Foundation's figure governs here as its own building's record. Ground was broken January 28, 2013; the architect was tvsdesign; Atlanta Hall Management operates it. South Bend's collection went there by way of the three moving trucks and the storage Kent Stephens described. What the Hall does in Atlanta — its attendance, its economics, its second decade — is Atlanta's record, in Atlanta's history, and this section claims none of it. What remains in South Bend is the thing this section was written to hold: seventeen years in which the national hall of a national game stood on St. Joseph Street, in a building the city built and still owns the memory of — its bid and its bonds, its projection and its gate, its school buses and its July parades, its letter of leaving and its last two days, when the city it was leaving filled it one final time and it sent its last gate receipts to the high school teams of Adams, Clay, Riley, Saint Joseph and Washington.
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- National Football Foundation and the College Football Hall of Fame, Atlanta — the August 23, 2014 opening, the 250 Marietta Street address, the 94,256 square feet and the $68.5 million cost, the January 28, 2013 groundbreaking, tvsdesign, and Atlanta Hall Management's operation.
- Al Lesar, South Bend Tribune, December 30, 2012 — the removal of the Hall's contents to Atlanta storage.