The Atlanta Braves say their privately developed mixed-use complex next to their new stadium will feature 630,000 square feet of office space; 500,000 square feet of retail and entertainment space; 600 residential units; one or more hotels with a combination of 450 rooms; and 100,000 square feet of what it calls a multi-use facility.
Those details were included in the team’s application for rezoning submitted the Cobb County government Thursday. The team paid $3,300 in filing fees with the application.
The rezoning proposal “is designed to propose an exceptional and unique mixed use development on the property immediately adjacent and in close proximity to the stadium,” the application’s cover letter says.
A separate portion of the application says it will be a development “that advances quality of life while bringing exceptional entertainment, office, residential, retail and a sense of place to the surrounding area.”
As part of the application process, the Braves were asked if the rezoning “will result in a use which will or could cause an excessive or burdensome use of existing streets, transportation facilities, utilities or schools.”
It will not, according to the Braves’ answer.
“The zoning proposal will ultimately be an improvement on the existing county infrastructure including, but not limited to, existing streets, transportation facilities, utilities and schools,” the Braves wrote in response. “There are numerous planned road improvements in the area surrounding the development.”
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