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TLANTA -- The Atlanta Braves announced Monday they will leave Turner Field for a new 42,000-seat, $672 million stadium about 10 miles from downtown Atlanta in 2017. It's not clear how much the proposed ballpark will cost taxpayers.

Braves executives John Schuerholz, Mike Plant and Derek Schiller said the team decided not to seek another lease at 17-year-old Turner Field and began talks with the Cobb Marietta Coliseum and Exhibit Hall Authority in July.

Plant, an executive vice president of businessoperations, said the team has not signed a contract with Cobb County but that he's "100 percent certain it will happen." He said talks broke down with the Atlanta Fulton County Recreational Authority earlier this year over an extension of the team's 20-year lease, which expires after the 2016 season.

The news comes as the Atlanta Falcons finalize plans for a $1.2 billion retractable roof football stadium near downtown, which is also scheduled to open in 2017.

"We started looking at our future way back in 2005," Plant said. "We recognized some of the challenges the current site held for us and we recognized some of the opportunities that we were going to pursue to enhance those."

Schiller, an executive vice president of sales and marketing, said financing will come from the Braves and the Cobb County government. The team will be responsible for any cost overruns.

He declined to say how much taxpayers will be responsible for, saying that information as well as the length of the new lease will be made public soon. The Cobb Marietta authority will own the stadium, with construction scheduled to begin next summer.