suntrust park is the name of the atlanta braves new stadium.
suntrust park is the name of the atlanta braves new stadium.
what's the name of the atlanta braves new stadium?
suntrust park
two weeks after the atlanta braves announced the new stadium project, the cobb county commission held a public hearing to vote on whether to approve the plan. residents who both supported and opposed the plan began crowding into the meeting hall hours before the 7 p.m. hearing was to begin, many sporting "cobb: home of the braves" t-shirts. after a one-hour public comment on the new stadium project, the cobb county commission voted 4-1 to approve a memorandum of understanding with the atlanta braves. on may 27, 2014, the cobb county commissioners voted unanimously, 5-0, on the operating agreement that bound the county to borrow up to $397 million to build the new stadium.
suntrust park
after the 1996 summer olympics were complete the stadium was officially given as a gift to the atlanta national league baseball club, inc. (the atlanta braves) ted turner, then owner of the braves, agreed to pay a large sum of the cost to build centennial olympic stadium (approximately $170 million of the $209 million bill), if in turn, the stadium was built in a way that it could be converted to a new baseball stadium and that the atlanta committee for the olympic games (acog) paid for the conversion. this was considered a good agreement for both the olympic committee and the braves, because there would be no use for a permanent 85,000 seat track and field stadium in downtown atlanta (as the 71,000 seat georgia dome was completed four years earlier by the state of georgia) and the braves had already been exploring opportunities for a new stadium.
1997 atlanta braves season