Truist Park

This chapter investigates the future of baseball stadium design by focusing on the conceptions of space and spatial practices found in Atlanta's Truist Park and The Battery Atlanta multiuse development. It recounts how Truist Park has achieved distinctions by being the first stadium to replace a mallpark. It also mentions New York Times architectural critic Paul Goldberger, who argues that Truist Park and The Battery Atlanta blur the distinction between the real city and the artifice of the ballpark. The chapter highlights the $1.1 billion mixed-use development of The Battery Atlanta, which features high-end retail stores, chef-driven restaurants, a four-thousand-person-capacity theater, a sixteen-floor hotel, 550 residential units, and a nine-story office building. It talks about how Truist Park and The Battery Atlanta portend a new generation of baseball stadium design, noting the mallparks that became economically obsolete.