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1900 2,216,331 20.6% Georgia Aquarium Gold medal from the 1996 Summer Games. . Cumberland 14 See also Georgia State Stadium was originally built for the 1996 Summer Olympics as Centennial Olympic Stadium Following the 1996 Summer Paralympics the Olympic Stadium was reconfigured as designed into the baseball-specific Turner Field serving as the home of the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball from 1997 until 2016 After the Braves' departure for SunTrust Park in Cobb County Georgia State University acquired Turner Field and its surrounding parking lots for a large scale expansion of the Georgia State campus which includes new private and student housing academic and retail space in addition to the stadium redevelopment. English 8.1% US 23.svg U.S Route 23 *In 2012 voters in Macon and Bibb County approved the consolidation of the City of Macon and unincorporated Bibb County; they officially merged on January 1 2014 Macon joined Columbus Augusta and Athens as consolidated cities in Georgia, With the dawn of the twenty-first century many former industrial buildings were repurposed for residential and retail use many along the BeltLine former railroad rights-of-way which became a ring of trails around the central city Examples are Ponce City Market Krog Street Market Telephone Factory Lofts Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills King Plow and Goat Farm Arts Centers and many others particularly in the Old Fourth Ward Inman Park Village Cabbagetown and Reynoldstown and the Marietta Street Artery. 49/9 80/27 Media is also an important aspect of Atlanta's economy in fact the city is even a major cable television programming center Ted Turner established the headquarters of both the Cable News Network (CNN) and the Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) in the city Cox Enterprises the nation's third-largest cable television service and the publisher of over a dozen American newspapers is headquartered in the city the Weather Channel is headquartered just outside of Atlanta in suburban Cobb County.

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