Truist Park: The Ballpark and The Battery Atlanta

There is no rail line to this ballpark, and the record says so twice. The encyclopedia states that Truist Park is over ten miles from the nearest train station and that no rail line serves it directly. MARTA's own website, searched directly, lists no rail station at or near Truist Park or the Cumberland and Battery Atlanta area; the only relevant reference found on it was a Route 12 bus service alert naming the Cumberland Transfer Center.

Buses are the transit answer. CobbLinc route 10A serves Truist Park on weekdays, with additional connections at the Cumberland Transfer Center, which itself connects to MARTA bus route 12 and to CobbLinc routes 10, 10B, 20, 25 and 50. The Braves also run what the encyclopedia calls a "circulator" bus system to shuttle fans to and from the stadium.

The Battery Atlanta's own site states that the development "is served by CobbLinc, Marta, the new Cumberland Circulator, Hopper as well as a designated Ride Share pickup area". That is a flat list of distinct services, and it is published as one: nothing on the page says that Hopper is the Cumberland Circulator's brand name, and the finder's item saying so was refuted.

On parking, the ballpark is surrounded by more than 11,000 parking spaces owned or leased by the organization, announced by the Braves in January 2017 — 2,500 more than Turner Field had — with parking, in MLB's own words, "spread 360-degrees around Truist Park". Fans are advised to buy in advance. That figure is published on the source the verifier re-fetched and quoted, not the one the finder cited: the cited page contains no space count at all, on two full-text re-fetches.

The published rates that survived verification are the oversized ones. Fifteen-passenger vans are $50 per vehicle and RVs up to 35 feet are $75 per vehicle, both in Lot 29, and bus parking permits range from $50 to $75 per vehicle depending on size. No standard single-vehicle rate appears on that page, and none is published here.

Around the ballpark is a single development. The Battery Atlanta was proposed on November 20, 2013, broke ground on September 16, 2014 and opened in stages beginning in 2017, at a cost of roughly $400 million funded by the Braves and development partners. Its architect was Wakefield Beasley & Associates. Every place below is one of its tenants.

Two hotels stand on the property. The Omni Hotel at The Battery Atlanta opened on January 3, 2018 and is owned 50/50 by the Atlanta Braves and Omni Hotels & Resorts. It has 16 floors, a two-story restaurant, rooftop hospitality suites and a pool deck with views into the ballpark. Its size is reported here as a disagreement rather than a number: the encyclopedia says 264 rooms, and the property's own "Stay" page says 236 rooms and 28 suites, with over 20,000 square feet of meeting space. Both quotes are accurate to their sources, the hotel's own page returned HTTP 403 and could not break the tie, and neither figure is preferred here. The second hotel is the Aloft Atlanta at The Battery Atlanta, and the property's "Stay" page listing it is the only thing about it that could be confirmed — the operator's own property page returned HTTP 403, so no room count and no history for it appears here.

The Coca-Cola Roxy, at 800 Battery Avenue SE #500, is a Live Nation concert venue with standing-room capacity for 4,000, hosting about 40 music and comedy shows annually, and developed with Live Nation. Silverspot Cinema is listed among the property's current entertainment venues; its own domain could not be resolved, so the directory is all there is.

Two shops are listed among the property's retail tenants: the Mizuno Experience Center and Baseballism. Neither is described further here, and both omissions are deliberate. Mizuno's own experience-centre page returned HTTP 404, and the claim that would have described it is one the verifier could not check. The description of what Baseballism sells was, in the verifier's words, "not independently verified on any source fetched", and Baseballism's own retail-locations page listed no physical stores at all in the content retrieved.

Six restaurants complete the property. Superica is chef Ford Fry's restaurant concept. C. Ellet's Steakhouse runs a Saturday jazz brunch, with a jazz duo playing from 11 to 3 every Saturday and Sunday. The Garden & Gun Club is described on the property's own site as offering specialty cocktails for evening entertainment. Yard House and Antico Pizza are both current dining tenants — Antico on evidence the verifier found and the finder had not, having looked only for a dedicated per-tenant page that does not exist for it. And Achie's, inside the Omni Hotel, is chef Hugh Acheson's eighth restaurant.

Two things about that last paragraph. Achie's is the one place here with no confirmed trading status: the encyclopedia article is the only source reached for it, its own domain could not be located, and no independent, dateable source confirming that it is open today was found. So this guide does not say it is trading. It does not say it has closed: no closure notice, dated report or successor tenant was found, and none should be inferred. And the source that describes Acheson also gives him an award, which the verifier's own verdict expressly declines to confirm for publication — so it is not published.

Six of the tenants carry no street address, and the reason is the sourcing defect described in the introduction. Silverspot Cinema, the Mizuno Experience Center, Baseballism, Yard House and Superica are published at 800 Battery Avenue SE, because the verifier's own text names that address for each of them. For the two hotels, the Garden & Gun Club, C. Ellet's Steakhouse, Achie's and Antico Pizza, no verdict text carries an address at all, and none is invented.

The first regular-season game at the ballpark was played on April 14,

2017. It opened as SunTrust Park, under a 25-year naming-rights agreement, and on January 14, 2020 the Braves and Truist Financial formally announced that the name would change to Truist Park, following the merger of SunTrust Banks and BB&T that created Truist Financial. There were two earlier games in the building — a March 31, 2017 exhibition and an April 8, 2017 college game — neither of which contradicts the April 14 opening.

The ballpark stands in Cumberland, which the encyclopedia describes as "an edge city in Cobb County located in an unincorporated area of the northwest Atlanta metropolitan area", ten miles northwest of downtown Atlanta. The postal city on the club's official address is Atlanta; the jurisdiction is Cobb County, whose government identifies itself on its own site at 100 Cherokee Street, Marietta.

Before Truist Park the Braves played at Turner Field from 1997 to

2016. That stadium was built as the 85,000-seat Centennial Olympic Stadium for the 1996 Summer Olympics and converted afterward into a 49,000-seat baseball-only park. The stadium before it is not described here as the finder described it. Ground was broken on that stadium on April 15, 1964 and construction was completed on April 9, 1965, in anticipation of a move announced in October 1964; court battles then delayed the franchise's actual relocation from Milwaukee until the 1966 season, a year after the stadium was finished. The Braves played there from 1966 to 1996. The finder had the building put up after the move rather than before it, and the verifier re-fetched the stadium's own article to establish the order.

The ballpark did not arrive alone. The Battery Atlanta was proposed on November 20, 2013, broke ground on September 16, 2014, opened in stages from 2017, cost roughly $400 million funded by the Braves and development partners, and was designed by Wakefield Beasley & Associates. The Braves are a Major League Baseball club and a member of the National League East Division, and the encyclopedia's article on the club states in the present tense that Truist Park is their home.