In the years before the Atlanta Braves packed up and moved to Cobb County, a mammoth mixed-use development like The Battery would have struck many Cobb residents as distastefully out of scale for their historically suburban and rural community.
Mid-rise apartment blocks stacked atop restaurants and shops, some affordable housing units scattered here and there, and an audacious skyscraper jutting up from the wooded Cumberland area — in other words, real development density? Forget it…