The Marietta Daily Journal – Braves release details and renderings of new ballpark

CUMBERLAND — The Atlanta Braves on Wednesday released renderings of the proposed $672 million Cobb County stadium as well as a projected $400 million mixed-use development that would accompany it, all set to open in 2017.

“That is a very aggressive timeline,” said Derek Schiller, executive vice president of sales and marketing for the Braves. “It is ambitious, but it is also something that we firmly believe can happen.”

The Braves have an option to buy a 60-acre wooded parcel near the Cumberland Mall from Bethesda, Md.-based B.F. Saul Co.

The open-air stadium would sit on 15 of those 60 acres and be owned by the Cobb-Marietta Coliseum and Exhibit Hall Authority. The $400 million mixed-use development would be built and owned by the Braves on the remaining 45 acres.

One point of access to the stadium is planned for off Cobb Parkway and Circle 75, where a proposed tree-lined street would pass by 700,000 to 1 million square feet of retail, restaurants, residential, hotel and office space leading to the 41,500-seat stadium.

“All the activities would be on that street, including easy access to the restaurants and retail areas that are associated there, all leading ultimately to near behind home plate of the Braves’ stadium location,” Schiller said.

A second entrance is planned for across the street from the Boy Scouts’ Atlanta office at Windy Ridge and Circle 75 parkways.

A third entrance features a walking bridge spanning Interstate 285 that would connect the stadium site with the Cobb Galleria Centre. That bridge would be open to a Disney-type tram that would bring people from their cars parked around the Cumberland area to the stadium.

via The Marietta Daily Journal – Braves release details and renderings of new ballpark.