New Renderings of Braves' SunTrust Park Released

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The Atlanta Braves have released new conceptual renderings of their new Cobb County stadium, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

According to the AJC, SunTrust Park’s immediate surroundings will be a $400 million mixed use “village,” a bustling hive of activity every day of the year. The AJC says that Braves officials report that interest in occupying space in the new development is robust.

Not everything is sunshine and home runs, however. Cobb County Commission Chairman Tim Lee survived an ethics hearing scare when the man who brought forth the complaint dropped the charges after he received a written apology from Lee regarding his less-than-transparent handling of the process which brought the ballclub to Smyrna.

Despite escaping the ethics board unscathed, Lee said that the chain of events that led up to the Nov. 20 hearing would help him change the way he and the county conducted its business, and felt that in the long run the entire situation would prove beneficial for the county.

The ethics hearing was the latest in a litany of legal challenges brought forth by various parties in the wake of the announcement that the Atlanta Braves will move to Smyrna by Opening Day 2017.

In November, a Smyrna property owner who had filed a lawsuit against the Braves for allegedly low-balling them on an offer to buy their parcel near the site of SunTrust Park, and then allegedly threatened to wall off the property if they did not sell, settled with the team.

In February of 2015, the Georgia Supreme Court will decide whether or not a Cobb County judge’s ruling to validate the issuance of nearly $400 million in bonds was constitutional.