Lakewood Stadium is a 10,000 seat stadium

Stadium

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 located in the Lakewood Heights

Lakewood Heights (Atlanta)

Lakewood Heights is a neighborhood in southeast Atlanta. It is bounded by:* the Betmar LaVilla, the Villages at Carver, and South Atlanta neighborhoods on the north,* the Chosewood Park neighborhood on the northeast,...

 neighborhood of Southeast Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

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. The stadium is one of two stadiums owned and managed by the Atlanta Public Schools

Atlanta Public Schools

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 system, and it is also the largest. The other stadium is Grady Stadium

Grady Stadium

Grady Stadium is an Atlanta Public School football stadium located in Midtown Atlanta, south of Piedmont Park. The stadium is one of two stadiums owned and managed by the Atlanta Public School system. It is the only high school stadium in APS that is located on the campus of a high school...

. Lakewood stadium was the first high school stadium in the state of Georgia to have artificial turf. In 2005, the turf was replaced with a brand new synthetic turf called FieldTurf. FieldTurf is the same synthetic turf used at Grady Stadium, the Georgia Dome and many other high profile sports facilities. The field was replaced by the Sports Turf Company, Inc, located in Whitesburg, GA In October 2006, Lakewood received an Honorable Mention in the Atlanta-Journal Constitution as one of the top 10 high school stadiums in the state of Georgia. As chosen by the voters of Atlanta, Lakewood was picked as the 4th best stadium for high school football in the Atlanta metro area.
As the largest stadium in the Atlanta Public Schools system, it essentially has been the home field for several future NFL players, including Jamal Lewis and Ahmad Carroll (Douglass), Lawrence Smith (Washington), Kelly Campbell (Mays), David Rocker, Tracy Rocker, and Corey Barlow (Fulton), Greg Favors (Southside), Kelvin Pritchett (Therrell) and Super Bowl XX most valuable player Richard Dent (Murphy).
Lakewood Stadium has been used in commercial shoots and currently for the BET

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 tv show The Game.

In 2011, Lakewood Stadium will be closed for the season due to a complete rebuilding of the stadium.