The Battery features
dining and fun
outside Truist Park
By Ryan Kolakowski
Next door to the Atlanta Braves’ stadium in Cumberland is
The Battery Atlanta, a $900 million mixed-use development
that spans 2 million square feet near the juncture of Interstates
75 and 285.
The 57-acre complex boasts some of metro Atlanta’s top stores
and restaurants as well as apartments, office buildings, hotel
suites and the Coca-Cola Roxy concert hall.
Cobb County built The Battery Atlanta to complement Truist
Park — then SunTrust Park — in line with the Braves’ move
from Turner Field in downtown Atlanta to south Cobb in 2017.
The Omni Hotel, which opened in January 2018, stands 16
stories tall and features 264 guest rooms, of which 28 are suites.
Hotel rooms feature a color palette of light grays, blues and
shades of red, a salute to the Braves’ official colors. Rooms also
feature one of two pieces of artwork: a deconstructed baseball
outlining the state of Georgia or a quote from former slugger
and Hall-of-famer Hank Aaron.
The Omni also houses more than 20,000 square feet of meeting
and event space, a grand ballroom, a pool and the 582 Waterside
Lounge & Bar — the fifth-floor pool deck selling cocktails
and food located 582 feet from Truist Park’s home plate.
In August 2018, the Braves announced Aloft Hotels would
develop a new 140-room “lifestyle hotel.” The Aloft Hotel,
part of the Marriott network of hotels, is now open alongside
Truist Park. The new hotel features the signature W XYZ bar,
and rooms feature oversized TVs, rainforest showers and free
wireless internet access.
Comcast’s nine-story office tower, a 200,000-square-foot space
that accommodates about 1,000 employees, sits near the Omni
Hotel beyond right field at Truist Park. One of the nine floors
is nearly filled up by “The Farm,” a startup accelerator Comcast
A crowd gathers outside the River Street Sweets location at The Battery Atlanta, snapping
pictures and cheering as a ribbon is cut at the grand opening. - file