Synovus Financial Corp. emphatically said Thursday it is not relocating its corporate headquarters to Atlanta, as reported incorrectly earlier in the day by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

The Atlanta publication, citing unnamed sources, posted the original story on its website around lunchtime Thursday. It later changed the relocation story to one of the Columbus-based regional bank consolidating its Atlanta operations to a new building being constructed near the future Atlanta Braves stadium in Cobb County. And it later changed that to the bank is “in talks” with developers to inhabit part of a building in the Cobb Galleria area.

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