Despite the loss of the Atlanta Braves, the Turner Field site is turning out to be exactly what Atlanta leaders expected: a successful mixed-use community anchored by Georgia State University. (more…)
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Redevelopment Around Former Turner Field Continues
An effort to redevelop the area around Atlanta’s former Turner Field continues, with developers breaking ground this week on apartments on a site formerly used for parking. (more…)
Ballparks That Live On: Turner Field
The former Turner Field has lived several lives in the past 22 years. After opening as Centennial Olympic Stadium for the 1996 summer games, it was converted into a ballpark for the Atlanta Braves. (more…)
Turner Field Sale Finalized
Turner Field‘s next chapter is about to take shape, as Georgia State University and its development partners have finalized a purchase of the facility. (more…)
Georgia State Votes on Turner Field Cost
Georgia State University‘s board of regents has authorized a nearly $53 million project that will include the conversion of Turner Field to a football stadium. (more…)
Georgia State, Partners to Buy Turner Field for $30 Million
Turner Field, once an 1996 Summer Olympics venue and since then home to the Atlanta Braves, is being sold to Georgia State University and its development partners for $30 million, in a deal expected to close by the end of the year. (more…)
Turner Field to remain open — as football stadium
Call it Act Three in the storied history of Turner Field: Today the Atlanta Fulton County Recreation Authority announced it would negotiate the sale of the Atlanta Braves home to a developer and Georgia State University, who will convert the facility to a football stadium. (more…)
Three groups bid for post-Braves Turner Field
Three groups, including a development group that includes Georgia State University, have submitted bids to take over Turner Field once the Atlanta Braves move to suburban Cobb County in 2017. (more…)
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 […]