They are HORRIBLE drawings

I mean look at all the people in the seats

Braves fans apparently just randomly raise their arms to the sky.

BigEd76 wrote:The new Barves stadium will be called SunTrust Park

new renderings

I went to Turner Field when I visited my brother in Atlanta this summer. Nice field, everything in good shape, had no trouble parking. Hope they enjoy the congestion out in the burbs, and the Braves can look with pride at the hole they've created in the middle of downtown. Though, being Atlanta, neither of these will be anything new.

Plus the batter's eye looks terrible (not Stanton's)

man I fucking hate the Braves

Polar Bear Phan wrote:Braves fans apparently just randomly raise their arms to the sky.

They're trying to do a wave. Those bastards

Looks like a pretty awful stadium TBH

Wish them all the worst

Too lazy to look for the reason myself, but why the heck are they building a new stadium? Turner Field isn't that old.

apparently the maintenance cost for Turner is expensive and needed, and in the long run a new stadium would be cheaper. Also transportation issues, also fuck them.

Slowhand wrote:Too lazy to look for the reason myself, but why the heck are they building a new stadium? Turner Field isn't that old.

Check out the controversies surrounding the Atlanta Hawks and connect the dots.

The stadium was built for the '96 Olympics and was modified to handle baseball, and the lease runs out in 2016. Schuerholz said it would take $150M for maintenance and $200M to improve the fan experience. They also did studies that said most of the Barves fans don't live near the stadium, the nearest train station is 3/4 mile away, car traffic is awful, and they can't control the supporting stuff (restaurants, hotels, bars, etc.) surrounding the area, so they're putting a new park close to I-75/I-285 in what they claim is the center of the fan base. The new place is gonna have 8,000 less seats so it won't look as empty, and it's gonna have less parking onsite but they'll be able to use adjacent parking lots and shuttles, so the 6,000 onsite parking spots will actually be 30,000 within a 2-mile radius

So a train station .75 of a mile away is too far, but parking spots 2 miles away are a good thing. Oooooookay then.

Additionally, the mixed-use development will fundamentally change many of our fans’ game day behaviors. Some will be interested in shopping and dining before the game, while others may stay later after the final out is recorded.

in other words you might have to wait 3 hours for an available shuttle to take you to your car in the next county

Well it isn't the Dan Uggla fiasco

BigEd76 wrote:The stadium was built for the '96 Olympics and was modified to handle baseball, and the lease runs out in 2016. Schuerholz said it would take $150M for maintenance and $200M to improve the fan experience. They also did studies that said most of the Barves fans don't live near the stadium, the nearest train station is 3/4 mile away, car traffic is awful, and they can't control the supporting stuff (restaurants, hotels, bars, etc.) surrounding the area, so they're putting a new park close to I-75/I-285 in what they claim is the center of the fan base. The new place is gonna have 8,000 less seats so it won't look as empty, and it's gonna have less parking onsite but they'll be able to use adjacent parking lots and shuttles, so the 6,000 onsite parking spots will actually be 30,000 within a 2-mile radius

Some of that is true, but a lot of it is rationalization. The main thing is that the stadium and surrounding area will be controlled by the Braves rather than being simply tenants, even though much of the money is coming from public sources. In other words, they can make a lot more money in a stadium of their own. Which is of course their right, but it doesn't mean the whole thing can't seem distasteful. One thing Cobb County had to guarantee to residents in order to win approval was that an extension of the public rail system would NOT be created to reach the stadium. Certainly don't want any of those city residents showing up to darken their doors.

slugsrbad wrote:apparently the maintenance cost for Turner is expensive and needed, and in the long run a new stadium would be cheaper. Also transportation issues, also #$!&@ them.

this creates far more transport issues than staying at Turner or rehabbing it.

they got free money from the public to go and build a fancy new stadium which they will own and charge higher prices for, and put further away from the center of the city. great plan.

pacino wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:apparently the maintenance cost for Turner is expensive and needed, and in the long run a new stadium would be cheaper. Also transportation issues, also #$!&@ them.

this creates far more transport issues than staying at Turner or rehabbing it.
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Even for the white people?

swishnicholson wrote:

BigEd76 wrote:The stadium was built for the '96 Olympics and was modified to handle baseball, and the lease runs out in 2016. Schuerholz said it would take $150M for maintenance and $200M to improve the fan experience. They also did studies that said most of the Barves fans don't live near the stadium, the nearest train station is 3/4 mile away, car traffic is awful, and they can't control the supporting stuff (restaurants, hotels, bars, etc.) surrounding the area, so they're putting a new park close to I-75/I-285 in what they claim is the center of the fan base. The new place is gonna have 8,000 less seats so it won't look as empty, and it's gonna have less parking onsite but they'll be able to use adjacent parking lots and shuttles, so the 6,000 onsite parking spots will actually be 30,000 within a 2-mile radius

Some of that is true, but a lot of it is rationalization. The main thing is that the stadium and surrounding area will be controlled by the Braves rather than being simply tenants, even though much of the money is coming from public sources. In other words, they can make a lot more money in a stadium of their own. Which is of course their right, but it doesn't mean the whole thing can't seem distasteful. One thing Cobb County had to guarantee to residents in order to win approval was that an extension of the public rail system would NOT be created to reach the stadium. Certainly don't want any of those city residents showing up to darken their doors.

I hear they could scare someone. Atlanta has a huge scary person problem.

"It is absolutely necessary the solution is all about moving cars in and around Cobb and surrounding counties from our north and east where most Braves fans travel from, and not moving people into Cobb by rail from Atlanta."

- Joe Dendy, chairman of Cobb Co Republican party

they also rushed the legislation through with a rigged town hall meeting, and Schierholtz admitted the plan might have failed without those tactics

I hate the South and their lack of transportation infrastructure, same goes for all the other sunbelt "cities." They aren't real cities so fuck them. It also makes me appreciate Septa a lot more.