Development has begun on the first cricket stadium in Georgia.
Atlanta News First reports the real estate developer Selig Enterprises sold 45 acres in the Atlanta suburb of LaGrange to DAS Cricket Academy and the NJ Blackcaps, a professional cricket club based in New Jersey, which will partner on the construction of the 10,500-seat LaGrange Cricket Stadium.
This will be the nation’s fourth cricket stadium and the first that is privately owned. The stadium will also include a soccer field, and the developers said they will also build an adjacent hotel with a “sports-focused food and drink program” on the site.
The stadium will be based at part of the 180-acre mixed-use Sola LaGrange development that already features the Great Wolf Lodge resort and indoor waterpark, with housing and commercial real estate being planned.
“With its mild, year-round climate and proximity to the Atlanta airport, LaGrange serves as the perfect location for cricket’s next expansion,” said DAS Cricket Academy founder Siddharth Das. “We look forward to introducing this sport to a growing audience in the greater Atlanta region and showing why more than 2.5 billion people enjoy cricket worldwide.”
Groundbreaking for the LaGrange Cricket Stadium will take place later in the fall and the venue is scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2027.
Photo: Artist’s rendering of the stadium, courtesy of Selig Enterprises.
