Center Parc Stadium

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Center Parc Stadium is a football stadium in the southeastern Atlanta neighborhood of Summerhill, Georgia. It is the home of the Georgia State Panthers football team and has also hosted other events since its redevelopment.

A short history
- The site began as Centennial Olympic Stadium, built for the 1996 Summer Olympics.
- After the Games, it was rebuilt into Turner Field, which housed the Atlanta Braves from 1997 to 2016.
- In 2017, Georgia State University bought the Turner Field site for campus expansion and converted the stadium for football use. It opened as Georgia State Stadium on August 18, 2017, with the Panthers’ first home game on August 31, 2017.
- The stadium was renamed Center Parc Stadium in 2020 under a 15-year naming-rights deal with Atlanta Postal Credit Union (APCU). The deal allows up to two name changes with approvals.

Key facts
- Location: 755 Hank Aaron Drive SE, Atlanta, Georgia
- Capacity: about 24,333
- Surface: FieldTurf
- Owner: Georgia State University
- Tenants: Georgia State Panthers football (2017–present); MEAC/SWAC Challenge (host since 2018); Atlanta Legends (AAF, 2019); MEAC/SWAC and other events have been held there as well.

Notable events and uses
- The stadium has hosted a Corky Kell Classic (high school games) and the Georgia State Panthers’ first game in 2017, followed by their first home win in October 2017.
- Foo Fighters performed the stadium’s first concert in 2018.
- It has also hosted the MEAC/SWAC Challenge, the Atlanta Legends football team (AAF), and multiple high school and college events.
- In 2022, Center Parc Stadium hosted a Power 5 opponent for the Panthers (North Carolina) and in September 2024 Georgia State defeated Vanderbilt, marking a notable win over an SEC team.

Access
- The stadium sits in Summerhill and is accessible by multiple MARTA bus routes. There is no direct MARTA rail station at the stadium, but you can reach it from nearby Georgia State station on the Blue/Green Lines.

Center Parc Stadium is part of Georgia State University’s broader campus redevelopment, a project that transformed the former Turner Field site into a multi-use facility for football, housing, education, and entertainment.