How do you rate SunTrust Park, The Battery so far?

Now that it has been a few months since the spring opening of SunTrust Park, Cobb County residents, Braves fans and metro Atlanta commuters have had time to assess the behemoth that was once undeveloped land. Besides the baseball field, The Battery Atlanta offers 1.5 million square feet of mixedused development at the intersection of I-285 and I-75. There is now a 4,000-seat music venue called the CocaCola Roxy.

Although there are areas yet to be developed in The Battery Atlanta, the county has brought in a few million dollars in sales and property tax already from the Braves’ investment of $372 million and $300 million from the county and the Cumberland Community Improvement District to build SunTrust Park. In annual property taxes alone, $3 million in revenues for the school system, $489,000 to the county fire fund and $1.2 million towards county government operations are expected each year, according to the CobbCounty.org website. No millage rate increases are proposed for Cobb residents.

But perhaps the biggest test for many is the traffic.

A 7:35 p.m. start time for weekday night games was supposed to help alleviate the horrendous traffic in metro Atlanta. With fans coming from all over, bad traffic in Cobb can affect Fulton, Gwinnett, DeKalb and everywhere else. Even though there are some public transportation options: MARTA bus connections and CobbLinc routes, it doesn’t have the level of public transportation options compared to Turner Field. But has that made a difference? So far, does SunTrust Park/ The Battery Atlanta hit a home run, strike out or fall somewhere in between?