(06-04-2015 06:54 AM)bullitt_60 Wrote:  

(06-03-2015 11:51 PM)BariBlue Wrote:  

(06-03-2015 09:32 PM)bullitt_60 Wrote:  

(06-03-2015 08:03 PM)Usajags Wrote:  Not sure I understand what all the fuss is about. You currently share a neighborhood with the Braves, for the positives and negatives of that. They are leaving town, nothing you do is changing that. In its place you have a university wanting to have athletic facilites, baseball, football and all the development that comes with that, positives and negatives. Seems like it is a pretty even swap from what you have to what you're getting....

Uneducated people make the dumbest arguments I guess. Not sure if I'm the one uneducated or the people in the neighborhood.....

A stadium that is also empty 80% of the year.

The Georgia State plan also includes student housing and single family housing... along with a grocery store. So no, the land won't be empty 80% of the year.

Right. Turner Field is empty 80% of the year.

Technically. 5 hours a day for 81 days... works out to being empty 95% of the time.

(06-03-2015 11:22 AM)panama Wrote:  

(06-03-2015 11:08 AM)Usajags Wrote:  You would think a neighborhood that has seen baseball, football and Olympics would want to keep events in the neighborhood. What are they complaining about???

Small activist minority.

Probably but those ITP weirdos can be very vocal. It is like some of them live for stuff like this. Always fighting the "man"...and such.

Any target date that this will be official one way or another?

(06-05-2015 10:08 AM)GaSouthern Wrote:  Any target date that this will be official one way or another?

Braves have to give their notice before it can be for sale. They have a 5 year option they could exercise. So they won't do that until after the GA Supreme Court validates the bonds, which should happen this summer, and they are comfortable that the stadium will be ready. Which they should be, they have crews working 6 days a week. But technically they do not have to give notice until 12/31/15.

Good info! Thank you!!

Would have been awesome if the City of Savannah could have worked out the stadium issues with the Sav SandGnats. Would have been good to build a multi- use venue for concerts, baseball, and football. 30,000 seats would have done it. Could have had a bowl game and Southern could have played there once a year.

Macon is another place. They have that huge empty lot across from their convention complex.