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Mixed-Use development plans evolve
http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/atl/ba...41113_35572587
Where's the MARTA Station?
The stadium looks just like Turner Field. lol.
Coors Field experience is what Braves want to emulate
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/coors...3828699.735552
Rendering of the new ballpark village.
http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/atl/ba...rendering3.jpg
http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/atl/ba...rendering1.jpg
Geez, thats beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
The area around Coors field is awesome. If they can pull it off then it will be a billion times better than what was around Turner Field.
The area around Coors Field is indeed awesome. It's very much the model for what communities hope to achieve with a new ballpark.
That said, it's really difficult for me to imagine replicating downtown Denver in Cobb County.
It reminds me of the new ballpark village that was recently completed in St. Louis (which is so much fun) ... except out in the middle of nowhere.
I think the place will be full on the weekends and during the summer. But I imagine they'll run into some problems getting people there on a consistent basis on weeknights and when school is in. So about 3.5 months or so of the season is going to be a tough problem for the Braves to figure out. You're not going to have a bunch of families wanting to hang out late when they've got school/work the next day. Extenting MARTA might help there, get some of those young hipster weirdos to the stadium.
Or as John Hart would say
Look, here we got a premiere stadium with a great venue for people to meet and congregate and have a good time and a few beers, as well as keeping up with the American family tradition of bringing your kids to a baseball game.
Look, there are going to be so many other activities surronding the ballpark that are going to be fun and exciting and provide our fans the best experience there is in MLB baseball.
Look, here you see a stadium that is completely packed on a nightly basis enjoying the southern weather and watching a team capable of winning the World Series.
Look, here we got a guy in Freeman as you can see on the jumbo-screen that just absolutely crushes a pitch and leads the Braves to the World Series.
Still can't believe Heyward won't be here to christen the new crib.
The Denver region also has a really nice public transit system, including a network of buses that run into downtown Denver with regularity from across the area, a dedicated bus line for Rockies' home games and a new light rail system that drops people off a few blocks from Coors Field. I've never lived in Atlanta, but it certainly seems like the go-to solution for transportation woes, and certainly the option being discussed for SunTrust, is to build another highway or ten.
At least with the MARTA situation at Turner Field you could technically walk to either the Georgia State or even Five Points stations from the stadium.
What is the nearest MARTA station to the Galleria/Cobb area? Perimeter?
I don't like the idea of having to drive to the stadium for a multitude of reasons (drinking, cost, traffic, etc).
MARTA doesn't go to Cobb County. They have their own bus system. http://www.cobbcounty.org/index.php?...462&Itemid=421
Yeah, but what is the nearest MARTA station?
I took CCT, once, from Cumberland Mall to Lindbergh MARTA ... travel/wait time was over an hour.
I would truly hope that nobody would really seriously consider using bus transit to reach SunTrust, only because the traffic is already pretty unbearable in that immediate area.
yeah, this is gonna suck. getting to weeknight games is going to be next to impossible for many people out there. maybe that's not unlike the current setup, but i'll be damned if i'm going to go sit on freeways for hours to get there. and this knowing that i'll have to get in rush hour traffic if i don't want to be late. but hey, at least they'll have a chipotle outside the stadium because i'll be damned if i can't see a baseball game without a great fan "experience".
Judging from the map that the Braves released at the time they announced the move, more people will gain the ability to make it to weeknight games than the other way around. It sucks for those of you living inside 285, but would have to be better for most in the northern suburbs. I admit that my knowledge of Atlanta traffic is limited to a dozen or so visits and what my wife told me it was like we she lived there for 17 years.
@gritty_grinder 3h3 hours ago
In their own rendering of Suntrust Park, Braves are losing 6-3 to the Nats and have committed an error #TheBravesWay pic.twitter.com/5Hm3vqCHZT
Can you tell if BJ is hitting leadoff?
It's from when Bourn was hitting leadoff for us apparently.
This one is from a Nats fan showing that we took it from them: https://twitter.com/JWerthsBeard/sta...427008/photo/1
The score is the same in it only we're winning. :)
I don't know. Maybe they can figure something out to mitigate the traffic problems, but the place where they are putting the new stadium is a major congestion point. I would normally have avoided that location like the plague during rush hour, and it is hard for me to imagine 40,000 sports fans converging on that area making things better. Turner Field was certainly a pain for some people to get in and out of, but the new stadium (if they don't do some pretty creative planning) has the potential to be a pain for everyone.
There are 6.5 million people in Metro Atlanta. 6 million of them live outside 285. Most of the fans live outside 285 which is why the stadium will be located there. As for the traffic issues, that's one of the points to having bars and restaurants in the area. Not everybody will be converging at the same time. After the game, you don't have to sit in your car, doing nothing, waiting on the traffic to go away. You can walk around the complex. I was thinking that it would be pretty cool for there to be a theater and they could show midnight movies on the weekends. Dinner, ballgame and a movie. Maybe while you're at the game, someone else in the family would rather go to a movie. One more point about local traffic. There are only 81 home games. You'll survive!
while i agree with ya to a degree
that area of traffic during rush hour is horrific in terms of traffic
i am thinking it will take a few games but any veteran will find their own short cut routes to where they need to go instead of being the dumbasses that sit in lines of traffic on the interstate to get there
like some newbs do at Turner Field
If you'll research a bit, you'll see it. I'm sure the this thread doesn't need to turn toward this debate, but here's just one article: http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/10/opinio...ado-marijuana/
i have researched it more than a bit
that op ed piece comes from this person:
Quote:
Kevin A. Sabet is director of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, author of "Reefer Sanity: Seven Great Myths About Marijuana" and a former White House drug policy adviser. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
these are all lies here:
and all of those "examples" of that persons opinions are not reasons to keep it illegalQuote:
Employers are reporting more workplace incidents involving marijuana use, and deaths have been attributed to ingesting marijuana cookies and food items.
So much for the old notion that "pot doesn't kill."
btw, i am shocked that this guy doesn't want it legal and thinks those are "problems":
Quote:
He is an outspoken opponent of drug legalization, and spoke often on behalf of the Obama Administration on the subject. After leaving ONDCP after 2.5 years, he became a consultant and professor. In January 2013, Rolling Stone called him "Legalization Enemy #1" ahead of the US Drug Czar and the DEA Administrator.
I'm not going to lie. I did not see this thread turning into a marijuana debate.
I don't think this is the place for this conversation, but I was reading a story about how employers that save % on their insurance premiums by offering a drug free workplace are in a real bind. They have employees that aren't breaking the law, but then again they don't qualify for the discount driving the cost for the employers up. They also have the right to sue an employer for wrongful termination and employer has to defend himself.
Braves purchase land for Suntrust parking
http://m.braves.mlb.com/news/article...t-park-parking
Parking is important, though I wonder if it will be a museum that commemorates the years we were actually a good baseball team.
The bright side is it now doesn't look like traffic will be much of a problem.