The stadium used to host tennis events at the 1996 summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, could be torn down under new plans revealed by the US state.
According to local radio station WABE 90.1, Gwinnett County in Atlanta will buy approximately 35 acres near the Stone Mountain Park resort and exchange this for the deed to the tennis venue, currently held by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association.
Despite several attempts to keep the complex going, the stadium is no longer in use and has fallen into disrepair, with Gwinnett County Commission chair Charlotte Nash stating that the county will take bids from interested developers.
“There’s not another reuse of it, even if we were willing to spend the kind of money that it would take to put it into operating condition,” Nash said. “It just makes much more sense to demolish the building.”
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