re: What teams screwed up when they built a new stadium?

Old Tiger Stadium tops them all for me. Seen 7-8 games there but it was a dump at the end...the neighborhood was worse.

But wow, you were on top of the field which was really cool.

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Atlanta replacing both their football and baseball stadiums in a relatively short amount of time still blows my mind.

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There were perfectly valid reasons why the Braves left downtown. They wanted to be closer to their STH base, they wanted to own their stadium instead of leasing like they did w/Turner Field so that they could have all of their revenue, which they bring in in spades between game crowds and The Battery, and another reason was b/c the City of Atlanta never improved the neighborhood surrounding Turner Field, Summerhill, in the 50 years that they occupied that block, after numerous promises by the City to do so. It took the Braves leaving and Georgia State moving into Turner Field before Summerhill was finally improved, and boy is it ever. It's completely done a 180.

And moving has obviously worked. The Battery is always packed, Truist is sold out Or close to sold out most nights, the Braves are 2nd in baseball in attendance. They are printing $$$ at the Battery/Truist

Now as for the Georgia Dome(RIP), there was no good reason to tear it down except Blank wanted a SB and the only way to get one was to build a new stadium and alas, you have MBS built literally 2 feet beside the GA.Dome. The Dome was a perfectly good facility.

It's a beautiful facility, though. A cathedral.