Property Owner Settles Suit With Braves Over Stadium Deal

A property owner who had sued Cobb County, the Cobb County Board of Commissioners, and the Atlanta Braves over the construction of the baseball team’s new Cobb County stadium has settled with the Braves.

According to the Marietta Daily Journal, the owners of Fairly Breezy LLC sued the Cobb County Board of Commissioners in superior court and alleged that the board abused its powers in approving the rezoning of the property the stadium is being built on. The suit alleged that the zoning application was not complete nor specific enough.

Fairly Breezy also alleged that the Braves had given them an unreasonably low offer to purchase the 1.9 acres of land the company owns adjacent to the stadium site. The Braves also allegedly threatened to wall off the subject property if the offer was not accepted.

Stipulations of the settlement have not been made public, but the Braves will not need to modify their plans for SunTrust Park, which is slated to open in 2017.

Although the suit with the property owner is now settled, the Braves and the county face another legal challenge in February, when the Georgia Supreme Court will decide whether or not a judge’s ruling to validate the issuance of nearly $400 million in bonds was constitutional.