New spring training stadium for Atlanta Braves in North Port almost complete

With just a handful of weeks left, the construction team behind the $125 million project is wrapping up several elements.

By Grier Ferguson
| 6:00 a.m. February 22, 2019
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Lori Sax. The new Atlanta Braves spring training stadium will welcome fans in March.

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The seats are installed at CoolToday Park, and on March 24 thousands of fans will come streaming in for the first game at the Atlanta Braves’ new spring training home.

That game will mark the Major League Baseball team’s official move from the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando to West Villages, a master-planned community in North Port in south Sarasota County. The project, on the site of a former cow pasture, also marks the first new baseball complex in the region since JetBlue Park was built in 2012 for the Boston Red Sox in Fort Myers.