What is Truist Park?
[[Image:SunTrust Park Opening Day 2017.jpg|right|300px]] '''Truist Park''', originally known as '''SunTrust Park''', is a [[baseball stadium]] in a section of [[Cobb County, Georgia|Cobb County]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] that has an [[Atlanta]] mailing address. It is the home of the [[Atlanta Braves]] of [[Major League Baseball]] (MLB). It replaced [[Turner Field]] as the home of the Braves. During the stadium's planning process, it was named SunTrust Park when the Braves reached a naming agreement with the Atlanta-based SunTrust banking company.<ref>{{cite news |title=Braves' New Stadium to Be Named SunTrust Park|first=J. Scott|last=Trubey|url=http://www.ajc.com/news/business/braves-new-stadium-to-be-named-suntrust-park/nhNc4/|newspaper=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=September 16, 2014|access-date=September 16, 2014}}</ref> In February 2019, SunTrust merged with another banking company, BB&T, and the new company renamed itself Truist. However, the ballpark kept the SunTrust name through the 2019 season.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tucker |first1=Tim |title=When will SunTrust Park get a name change? |url=https://www.ajc.com/sports/baseball/when-will-suntrust-park-get-name-change/3lwkUdoJf3A48I00YqkfVI/ |access-date=March 24, 2019 |newspaper=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=March 22, 2019}}</ref> The new name of Truist Park became official on January 14, 2020.<ref>{{cite news |title=Braves stadium gets new name: Truist Park|first=Tim|last=Tucker|url=https://www.ajc.com/sports/baseball/braves-stadium-gets-new-name/VpkNGeOgJwDhjzfZHoY2eK/|newspaper=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=January 14, 2020|access-date=January 14, 2020}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{Commonscat}} [[Category:Major League Baseball venues]] [[Category:Atlanta Braves]] [[Category:Sports buildings in Atlanta]] {{sports-stub}}