Bomb Dropped: Braves Leaving Atlanta After 2016

For the suburbs...

The Braves' lease at Turner Field expires after the 2016 season, so the Braves are leaving for the northwest part of the city limits and will anchor a 60-acre mixed-use development...

As John Schuerholz reminded anyone willing to listen, there are reasons- all financial…

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The team is set to meet with Governor Nathan Deal to discuss their plans... and there is no set time to talk to Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed about their plans...

Especially, since he seems to be talking to the Falcons and only the Falcons about their plans these days...

In Schuerholz's statement regarding access to the ballpark will be greatly improved with the new location of the ballpark.  A majority of Braves fans who buy tickets to a game reside in the northern suburbs.

The team now has a website: homeofthebraves.com which explains "Some" of the details...

Map of who buys tickets to Atlanta Braves games

"And, Good Morning to you, too..."

More when we know more…

We know more--

The new stadium, projected to cost $670-plus million with $200 million coming from the Braves, the rest it appears will come from the citizens of Cobb County.

The location of the stadium, a somewhat hilly swath of land bordering an office park and an interstate highway. But the location also offers the team the ability to build a mixed used development next door, which many believe to be the true motivation for all of this.

Braves executive Derek Schiller says the new facility, slated to open at the beginning of the 2017 season, would seat 41 or 42,000 fans.

In a Monday morning press conference, Schiller and team President John Schuerholz also added that in order to do what they termed "Necessary" work to Turner Field, it would cost the team nearly $150 million in infrastructure work, work on a stadium they lease, not own.

And for those who say--"But they won't be in Atlanta anymore", well, actually they are. The location sits in the 30339 area code, which technically harbors an Atlanta mailing address.

WXIA-TV gives us more TV details: