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The Week That Was: August 24

Obamacare, ballpark planning at Mississippi State and Macomb County, and spring-training news generated interest amongst our readers. The top stories of the past week on Ballpark Digest, as measured by page views. Here are the top stories: Giants protest upheld; Wrigley issues caused by Obamacare?New spring training plan expected from Astros, Nats in coming weeksNew […]

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New Braves ballpark hit with lawsuit

Owners of a building next to the proposed Atlanta Braves ballpark development in Cobb County have filed suit against the project — just days before bonds are set to be sold, arguing traffic and noise would negatively impact their property. Attorneys representing Fairly Breezy LLC filed suit in Cobb Superior Court, arguing the county improperly rezoned […]

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New Braves ballpark financing, construction contract approved by Cobb County

Cobb County formally committed to a financing and development plan for a new Atlanta Braves ballpark, including the awarding of a construction contract, but not before protesters were escorted from the meeting. On the agenda at last night’s meeting: a series of seven agreements with the team and community development agencies that will enable construction […]

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Braves: Risk for new ballpark is all ours

Atlanta Braves officials seem pretty comfortable with the idea of taking on almost all the financial risk for a new Cobb County ballpark — an amount in the hundreds of millions. As a combo private development/ballpark, we’re talking about more than a half-billion dollars needed to finance construction and development: $300 million for the mixed-use […]

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Four bidders emerge on new Braves ballpark construction project

The numbers haven’t been crunched, but we have four bids in for construction of a new Atlanta Braves ballpark, scheduled to open for the 2017 season. The four construction groups submitting bids, in alphabetical order: American Builders, a consortium that includes Mortenson Construction (Minneapolis), Barton Malow (Southfield, Mich.), Brasfield & Gorrie and New South Construction […]

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Georgia State: We want Turner Field as football stadium

Georgia State University is pitching Atlanta officials on a redevelopment of the Turner Field area, with the ballpark converted to a football stadium and construction of a new ballpark on the old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium footprint. The new 2,500-seat ballpark would use the layout of the old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium field and incorporate the “Henry […]

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