This article is about the former baseball stadium. For the United States Marine Corps airfield known by this name, see Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico. For the former US military facility in Albany, Georgia known by this name, see Naval Air Station Albany.
Left Field – 335 ft (102 m) Left-Center – 380 ft (116 m) Center Field – 400 ft (122 m) Right-Center – 390 ft (119 m) Right Field – 330 ft (100.5 m) Backstop – 43 ft (13 m)
2017; 7 years ago (2017) (reconstructed as Center Parc Stadium)
Closed
October 2, 2016; 7 years ago (2016-10-02)
Construction cost
US$209 Million[1] ($406 million in 2023 dollars[2])
Architect
Atlanta Stadium Design Team (a joint venture of Heery International, Inc., Rosser International, Inc., Williams-Russell and Johnson, Inc. and Ellerbe Becket, Inc.)[3]
Project manager
Barton Malow
Structural engineer
Thornton Tomasetti
General contractor
Atlanta Stadium Constructors (a joint venture of Beers Construction Co., HJ Russell Construction Co. and CD Moody Construction Co.)[4]
Tenants
Atlanta Braves (MLB) (1997–2016)
Turner Field was a baseball stadium located in Atlanta, Georgia. From 1997 to 2016, it served as the home ballpark to the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB). Originally built as Centennial Olympic Stadium in 1996 to serve as the centerpiece of the 1996 Summer Olympics, it was converted into a baseball stadium to serve as the new home of the team. The Braves moved less than one block from Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium, which served as their home field for 31 seasons from 1966 to 1996.
Opening during the Braves' "division dominance" years, Turner Field hosted the NLDS a total of 11 times (1997–2005, 2010, 2013), the NLCS four times (1997–1999, 2001), one World Series (1999), one NL Wild Card Game (2012, the first in baseball history), and the 2000 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The Braves played the final game at Turner Field on October 2, 2016, a 1–0 win over the Detroit Tigers. The franchise allowed its lease on the facility to expire at the end of the calendar year. In 2017, the team moved to the newly constructed SunTrust Park (now called Truist Park), located in nearby Cobb County.
The stadium has been reconfigured for the second time, redesigned for college football in 2017 as Center Parc Stadium for Georgia State University. Architecture firm Heery was responsible for both stadium conversions.[7] The stadium is also the second former Braves ballpark to be converted to a college football stadium, the first being Braves Field when it was renovated into Nickerson Field in 1955.[8]
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^"Turner Field Follows in Footsteps of Braves Field | Ballpark Digest". September 8, 2016.
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