Braves move at age 2: it looks like a stadium

On the second anniversary of the Braves shocking move that the team would move out of downtown Atlanta and into a new suburban Cobb County stadium, SunTrust Park is beginning to take shape.

The major heavy construction aspects of the stadium — the concrete and steel work — are each expected to be completed by February. And crews have now begun work on the $450 million mixed-use development adjacent to the stadium.

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Dan Klepal

Dan Klepal is editor of the local government team, supervising nine reporters covering county and municipal governments and metro Atlanta. Klepal came to the AJC in 2012, after a long career covering city halls in Cincinnati and Louisville, Ky. He has covered Gwinnett and Cobb counties before spending three years on the investigative team.

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