SunTrust Park isn’t authentic - no stadium that’s younger than the milk in your fridge could be “authentic” - but it gives such a convincing appearance of authenticity that you feel like you’ve been here before. You can imagine that fence coming into play on a chilly October night, a highlight that hasn’t happened for a playoff-level team that doesn’t yet exist.īut this place does that to you. It’ll require right fielders to play NASA scientist on the fly, judging the angle and velocity of fly balls and either reel in the highlight catch or risk a bases-clearing carom off the bricks. My personal favorite: the strip of brick wall that runs above the padding along the right-field fence.
You cringe at the thought of the first pitcher scuffing up the mound, the first baserunner carving a trench en route to second base.
The grass resembles the greens at Augusta National the infield dirt is as delicate as Himalayan salt. The team takes care of its field, too we’re a long way from the days when the Braves had to share a stadium with the Falcons, the occasional soccer club, and whatever turf-shredding motocross event came to town while the ballclub was on a road trip. (Until then, Cubs, Red Sox and Yankees bandwagoners will have the run of the joint.) If and when the Braves can rally their fans, they’ll have a hell of a home-field advantage. Where many stadiums have rows of seats that extend outward from the field into infinity, the terraces at SunTrust Park form more of an enclosing wall. The seats are terraced in five sections rather than three, with the net result being fewer seats tucked under overhangs and more seats closer to the field. SunTrust Park seats 41,149, roughly a 20 percent drop from Turner Field’s capacity. For its most obvious purpose - giving baseball fans an opportunity to watch baseball - this is a damn near flawless facility. Still, in these turbulent and negative times, let’s go positivity-first. It’s also impossible to even consider SunTrust Park without considering the conditions under which it was born … and the conditions which you’ll endure getting here. The plaza serves as a grand central gathering space for fans, families, residents and visitors, and as a hub of activity, with new and fresh events throughout the year.But this is also a shrine to Brands as well as Braves, a place where every delight has its price, a place where there’s always a little bit better time waiting on the next level … if you’re willing to pay up. A 90-foot sunscreen-three times the size of the former sunscreen at Turner Field-and air conditioning on every level ensures cool temperatures for fans on hot summer days. With 41,000 seats, the more intimate configuration maximizes sightlines and elevations, placing a higher percentage of seats closer to the field than any other ballpark in Major League Baseball. Truist Park was designed with the fans in mind. Facing capital maintenance costs at the former home stadium of the Atlanta Braves that would have been more costly than building a new stadium, plans for a new stadium were developed.ĬBRE | Heery provided owner representation services to Cobb County Government for the new Atlanta Braves Baseball stadium, Truist Park, located in the Cumberland area of Cobb County, Georgia, northwest of Atlanta.
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