Photos: Braves, Comcast announce stadium deal

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Gov. Nathan Deal leads Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts and Atlanta Braves CEO Terry McGuirk into a press conference to announce a partnership with Comcast March 17, 2015.

The Atlanta Braves and Comcast this morning formally announced a deal under which the cable giant will provide high-tech infrastructure for the new Braves stadium and will become an anchor tenant in the mixed-use development planned for next door to the ballpark.

Braves chairman and CEO Terry McGuirk (left, with Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts) called the deal, first reported Monday by The Atlanta Journal-Consitution, a “major milestone” for the stadium project.

Comcast will “lend its expertise to drive the most technologically advanced ballpark and mixed-use development ever built,” McGuirk said. The company will provide video, voice and high-speed Internet connectivity throughout the stadium and surrounding development.

Comcast will occupy 100 percent of a nine-story office building in the mixed-use development adjacent to the stadium. The office tower, which will overlook the ballpark, will become Comcast’s Southeast regional headquarters. Some 1,000 Comcast employees will work there, most of them new hires. The office also will include an “innovation lab” for new technologies. -- All text by Tim Tucker, AJC

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Gov. Nathan Deal leads Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts and Atlanta Braves CEO Terry McGuirk into a press conference to announce a partnership with Comcast March 17, 2015.

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