(ATR) The Livable Centers Initiative is seeking to reinvent the area around the former Olympic Stadium with the departure of the Atlanta Braves baseball team at the end of the 2016 season.
The Braves will continue their games at a new ball park in Cobb County where they are "closer to the heart of the fan base" Braves executive vice president of business operations Mike Plant said. The last baseball game at Turner Field will be played on Oct. 2.
Turner Field, formerly known as the Centennial Olympic Stadium, was built specifically for the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympic Games and began its construction in 1993. It was at that stadium that the late Muhammad Ali– the first three-time heavy weight champion– lit the Olympic Flame during the Opening Ceremony of the '96 Games. The stadium was converted into Turner Field for the Atlanta Braves shortly after the Games, where the Braves have set an abundance of records.
The Turner Field Stadium is one of the few venues left standing to commemorate the 1996 Olympics. That may soon come to an end in the beginning of 2017.
The LCI has released a 92-page draft of how theyplan to reconstruct the area.Their vision includes variousdesign concepts that focus on retail development, single-family homes and senior living.The LCI also envisionsa plaza honoring Braves legend Hank Aaron who hit his 715th career home run at the Turner Field Stadium. The report also includes plans for transit, connecting communities south of I-20 to the downtown area.
"The redevelopment of Turner Field and the core area presents an unparalleled opportunity to mend some of the unfavorable consequences previous developments have brought to the area while effectively anticipating for the challenges a growing city like Atlanta will continue to face," the report states.
Georgia State, which is also in negotiations to purchase 67 acres, plan to convert the current arena into a football stadium along with building more student housing.
With final sale contracts being finalized in the coming weeks, plans to reconstruct will get underway fairly soon.
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