If we start building new stadiums for pro teams every 15 or 20 years, $450 million here, $450 million there, pretty soon you're talking about real money.ġ1. The Georgia Dome (the Falcons' current home) has been around since just 1992, and the Braves didn't start playing at Turner Field until 1997 (it was built for the '96 Olympics). The new Atlanta Falcons stadium is expected to cost $1.2 BILLION, although the Falcons have promised to come up with most of that money.ġ0. This sort of thing has happened so many times that it's almost no longer news. This is the same county that cut 182 teachers from its school system back in the spring. Cobb County is likely to spend $450 million to build the stadium (with the Braves chipping in $200 million). Exhibit A - all those cushy, empty seats behind the plate at the new Yankee Stadium.ĩ. That does not mean those seats will be filled. A new stadium also surely means ticket prices will go up, especially for the most choice seats. But get off work and do the commuter death march to Cobb to watch a losing team? No way.Ĩ. with a downtown stadium, people working in downtown Atlanta might stick around after work, grab some dinner and go to a Braves game.
ATLANTA BRAVES MOVES FULL
So a stadium of 41,000 to 42,000 - about 10,000 seats smaller than the Ted - is like lap-band surgery: It'll feel more full even if the same amount of stuff is in there.ħ. If you sort by percentage of seats filled, the Braves drop to 21st. The Braves won 96 games last season - one shy of the best record in baseball - but the team was just 13th in attendance. The new stadium is going to be smaller than Turner Field, and that actually makes sense, because despite the Braves' incredible success over the past 20 years, people still don't come to the games. Once the Braves start playing out there in 2017, expect a lot of people that first season to arrive around the fifth inning.Ħ. That I-75/I-285 interchange is one of the worst in Atlanta already. It's gonna be the Oregon Trail out there.ĥ. make sure your SUV is loaded with provisions. But trying to get from downtown ATL out I-75 to the other side of the Perimeter for a 7:30 game. I guess it would be a short distance if you had a jetpack. Braves president John Schuerholz, in his video message to fans, calls the new stadium "a short distance from downtown Atlanta" and all I can say in response is HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Now the Braves are moving Outside the Perimeter. I know people Outside the Perimeter who never go Inside the Perimeter except for sports. Inside the Perimeter is where you find organic Thai food and you might have more than the average number of piercings. Outside the Perimeter is a sea of Home Depots and brick houses with bonus rooms. Part of that is racial, but it's also cultural and philosophical and a bunch of other -al words. You hear people talk about Inside the Perimeter or Outside the Perimeter as separate countries. In Atlanta, many people define their lives by the Perimeter, the I-285 loop that circles the city.
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