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A Goal Fulfilled: Atlanta wasn’t known as a soccer hotbed — until Blank brought an MLS team to town

Long before Atlanta United or Mercedes-Benz Stadium existed, Arthur M. Blank had a vision. While in Aspen, Colo., at a conference hosted by longtime private equity giant Forstmann Little & Co. during the mid-2000s, he pitched MLS Commissioner Don Garber on bringing a team to Atlanta. MLS did...

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