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Turner Stadium plans woud be closer to ‘dream’ with Braves

Outside of an empty stadium, which for most of the past two seasons has hosted an empty team, the mayor of Atlanta was doing what mayors do best: Waxing on. Poetically, economically, politically.

“Turner Field will no longer be a baseball stadium, but it will still be a field of dreams and it will inspire a neighborhood of dreams,” Kasim Reed said.

(Shoeless Joe stand off stage, on the edge of a cornfield, waiting for his turn to speak.)

Reed then transitions from imagination to visualization: “Goodbye asphalt eyesores. Hello 21st century. Hello retail, hello residential, hello walkable streets and bike paths.