Tall buildings! Shiny lights! Hookers on Van Buren street!Д®ven when I lived in Denver for a year after college, I used to walk to Coors Field from my downtown apartment. When I was a suburban kid growing up in Phoenix, seeing a Suns or Coyotes game was just about the coolest thing you could do because, hot damn, you were going to the city! Sure, it could be a lot closer to the center, but it's near enough to count - basically, the same justification I adhere to when using the urinals in between innings. Period.ДЄnd Turner Field is more or less just that. You see, baseball stadiums - and all other sports arenas for that matter - should be downtown. But at least it's sorta kinda close to downtown. Everyone failed from the get-go.ДЄlas, the area adjacent to Turner Field is a complete wasteland of asphalt and sadness. What they didn't see was the potential to create a truly urban experience around the ballpark. They all saw the potential money to be made from charging people to park. And that means instead of enjoying local bars and restaurants around the stadium, most people wander through giant empty spaces of nothing so everyone can have convenient places to temporarily stow their cars for a few hours prior to dangerously weaving home drunk after the game. Thus, after getting off the train, sensible fans have to transfer onto a shuttle bus - another tedious step in the process. Which is dangerous and also requires burning calories. That's a 30 minute walk in the blazing sun. The nearest MARTA stop to Turner Field is a mile and a half away. So long as you have a loose interpretation of the word 'subway.'

Quite simply, the big mistake here in Atlanta was not connecting Turner Field with a direct stop on the MARTA train line. And not anywhere near as terrible as that giant toilet bowl they pass off as a stadium in Tampa Bay. Despite having about 10,000 too many seats, I actually don't dislike the stadium - the brick and mortar and beer dispensers.ДЄgain, it's nothing special. To be fair, the biggest blunder of Turner Field has nothing to do with the look or structural design. I'll get back to that uninspiring heap of bad ideas in a moment.Д«ut here's the thing about Turner Field. Thus, in 2017, the Braves will begin play at the architectural abortion now known as SunTrust Park. In November 2013, the team announced that they would not renew it. The city leased the stadium over to the Braves. Most modern Olympic venues become tenantless, rotting eyesores, so everyone was generally aroused by this rare moment of logic. Which temporarily elongated the ownership of the Braves, who now had a sexy new home. President Bill Clinton sat in awe as Gladys Knight sang 'Georgia on My Mind'В at the opening ceremony.ДЄfter the Olympics, the temporarily elongated northern part of the stadium was reconstructed from athletics to baseball and gifted to the city. It was built for the 1996 Summer Olympics, and was originally called Centennial Olympic Stadium. There's nothing uniquely special about the Braves current confines at Turner Field. But it was in this brief moment of seeing the distant capitol dome on a warm, beautiful night that I became wistful andВ nostalgicВ for something that wasn't yet gone, andВ something that, frankly, isn't all that wonderful to begin with.

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