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00:00 SportsFest with Rick Harrow and his other $1.3 trillion business in sports with your
00:07 Sports News Minute.
00:09 Truist Park, formerly SunTrust Park, 10 miles north of downtown Atlanta, but a world away.
00:15 Built by Cobb County as well as the Atlanta Braves, a joint effort, and the development
00:21 included Liberty Media, which a $400 million contribution for a real estate development
00:26 called Battery Park.
00:27 You can see the people coming in behind me, but it is a tremendous shot in the arm for
00:32 downtown Atlanta and otherwise.
00:35 This brought a billion dollars of economic impact over time.
00:39 It's the newest mixed-use development, along with what St. Louis has done, what Camden
00:44 Yards, San Diego's gaslight district, had started.
00:48 And the overall deal is it's a 10-year anniversary of the beginning of the planning.
00:52 The stadium opened in 2017, the real estate development shortly thereafter, big-time deal
00:59 for Major League Baseball and the fan experience.
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