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From today's TFP, national mall developer/owner CBL plans to convert the space currently occupied by Sears at Hamilton Place Mall into 62K s.f. of office space. All part of their evolving plan to turn the property into mixed use, town centers. Dave and Busters & Aubrey's are slated for the location of the adjacent Sears Auto Service building. And Cheesecake Factory opens today on the upper lot between Sears and the CBL office building.  A hotel is also planned with additional retail.  

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/business/aroundregion/story/2018/dec/03/hamiltplace-sears-see-office-space-makeover/484240/

 

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Chattanooga Football Club and The Stadium Corporation today agreed upon a three year deal that will keep the NPSL powerhouse in Chattanooga’s largest sports venue for years to come. During the club’s ten season history, over 338,000 people have come to Finley Stadium to watch Chattanooga FC play.

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More southside development on the way at 33rd & Broad, near the CCS campus. Just to the west on Broad, a new Publix market is planned. The plan was defeated by the planning commission last month due to parking being in front of the building. Neighbors want it behind the building. Now, a revised plan will be coming up for review next month. 

More on Chazen's plan to build 450 residential units and 48,000 sf of retail space.

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/business/aroundregion/story/2018/dec/06/hundreds-new-housing-units-planned-s-broadtra/484470/

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On 12/7/2018 at 9:27 AM, MLBrumby said:

More southside development on the way at 33rd & Broad, near the CCS campus. Just to the west on Broad, a new Publix market is planned. The plan was defeated by the planning commission last month due to parking being in front of the building. Neighbors want it behind the building. Now, a revised plan will be coming up for review next month. 

More on Chazen's plan to build 450 residential units and 48,000 sf of retail space.

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/business/aroundregion/story/2018/dec/06/hundreds-new-housing-units-planned-s-broadtra/484470/

Love that the city stood it's ground and forced the developer's hand on this.  Having parking in the back may seem like an insignificant and trivial thing, but having a parking lot that lot front the street can really reek havoc on an urban neighborhood.  Maybe the city learned it's lesson from the North Shore Walgreen's.  Ugh... I hate that thing.  

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11 hours ago, BnaBreaker said:

Love that the city stood it's ground and forced the developer's hand on this.  Having parking in the back may seem like an insignificant and trivial thing, but having a parking lot that lot front the street can really reek havoc on an urban neighborhood.  Maybe the city learned it's lesson from the North Shore Walgreen's.  Ugh... I hate that thing.  

That Walgreens is literally the worst thing ever.  Every time I see that thing I imagine what that corner would be like with a nice mixed use development and Walgreens could have still been on the corner. 

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1 hour ago, Titans10 said:

That Walgreens is literally the worst thing ever.  Every time I see that thing I imagine what that corner would be like with a nice mixed use development and Walgreens could have still been on the corner. 

Agreed completely.  It punches such a huge hole in what is otherwise a solid, vibrant street wall.   Hell, even if it were just a stand alone Walgreen's built up to the street it'd be passable, but ugh... its just ghastly the way it is.  

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Miken Developing is eyeing  a $40 million project that would include the adaptive reuse of some vacant industrial buildings. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports the project would yield a structure offering residential and retail space within the Scenic City’s fast-changing East Main Street corridor.

Miken has bought the eight-acre site, with an address of  1601 S. Holtzclaw Ave. and that formerly housed a Rock-Tenn facility.

The plan calls for about 120 for-sale residential units and 30,000 square feet of retail space, the Times Free Press reports.
 

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I realize it's a big box with parking, but this has been a controversial project that gained a lot of public comments/input. Folks on top of the mountain want another grocery option (there's a FC on this side & a WalMart on the other). The people in St. Elmo wanted something more urban in design. 

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/breakingnews/story/2019/may/01/chattanooga-panel-oks-proposed-south-broad-street-publix-plan/493816/

The Chattanooga Board of Zoning Appeals voted 6-0 for a waiver for the project related to parking and access to enable the 32,000-square-foot store to move ahead, barring any technical problem with the city.

A new compromise agreement by the city and the store's developer shifted the supermarket more toward South Broad and put small retail space against the street. Th changes appeared to ease concerns by some people who wanted an urban feel to the project.

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A new boutique Bode Hotel has opened in the (formerly named) Clemons Building, built in 1930 and containing 81K s.f. and 111 bedrooms. It was formerly an apartment, now converted to 'residential' hotel use, with 54 units. Located at NE corner of 8th and Chestnut (across from Mountain City Club). From Times Free Press. 

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/business/aroundregion/story/2019/may/01/boutique-hotel-clemons-building/493848/

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4 hours ago, MLBrumby said:

 

I realize it's a big box with parking, but this has been a controversial project that gained a lot of public comments/input. Folks on top of the mountain want another grocery option (there's a FC on this side & a WalMart on the other). The people in St. Elmo wanted something more urban in design. 

 

 

I’m glad they fought it and got a better design, wish more people had done the same in North Chatt when Publix was announced.  That area of South Broad is prime for more development. 

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On 5/2/2019 at 7:45 AM, MLBrumby said:

A new boutique Bode Hotel has opened in the (formerly named) Clemons Building, built in 1930 and containing 81K s.f. and 111 bedrooms. It was formerly an apartment, now converted to 'residential' hotel use, with 54 units. Located at NE corner of 8th and Chestnut (across from Mountain City Club). From Times Free Press. 

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/business/aroundregion/story/2019/may/01/boutique-hotel-clemons-building/493848/

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That's a beautiful building. I'm all for the Bode concept.

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From the Soccer Stadium Digest...

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Plans for a Chattanooga Red Wolves‘ stadium project took a step forward Thursday, when East Ridge, TN officials backed tax incentives for the development.

USL League One‘s Red Wolves are set to build a new stadium that will anchor a larger mixed-use development on about 100 acres at Interstate 75 and Interstate 24. The estimated $125 million projected is led by Red Wolves and Utah-based Star Community Builders owner Bob Martino, and calls for a 5,550-seat stadium to highlight a project that includes 400 apartment and condominium units, 375 hotel rooms, 475,000 square feet of commercial space including the stadium, and a mix of walking and nature trails.

The tax plan was described, thusly....

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More from the Chattanooga Times Free Press:

The East Ridge City Council voted unanimously for the Border Region Retail Development District state sales tax incentive for the project. That allows the city to recapture the growth in sales tax collections within the zone and then plow those funds back into repaying investments in the area, including the planned $6 million stadium.

The proposed project will receive 97% of the incremental state sales and use tax revenues, while the city will receive 3%, under the city’s plan.

Mayor Brian Williams said the city doesn’t have any costs related to the development, adding it’s not providing land because the nearly 100 acres Martino is buying is private property.

“We receive a 3 percent return of their investment to our city,” he said.

It will be a nice 'soccer specific' stadium, but I'm surprised they feel Chattanooga could support a second soccer team.

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On 5/14/2019 at 7:52 AM, PHofKS said:

It will be a nice 'soccer specific' stadium, but I'm surprised they feel Chattanooga could support a second soccer team.

 

We can’t support two teams, it will be interesting if this comes to fruition, Red Wolves attendance is in the 100’s despite what they announce at a match plus there is already questioning about building in a protected wetland, it will be interesting as to how it all works out, but I don’t know anyone wanting to go to East Ridge for anything.  http://www.chattanoogapulse.com/columns/shades-of-green/a-water-management-threat/

 

also read this thread about the bad blood between the teams 

 

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Groundbreaking soon for a new $25M parking garage (1300 spaces) at CHA (Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport). On track to exceed last year boarding totals, the first over half a million. The airport authority is even now fast tracking an expansion of the terminal with a $28M project that will double number of gates to 16 and add a TMA speed check security line. https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/breakingnews/story/2019/aug/19/chattanooga-airport-parking-garage/501548/

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Patten Pky undergoing $5M renovation to downtown district with new walkways, lighting and landscaping. 

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/breakingnews/story/2019/aug/12/work-begins-historic-patten-parkway-redesign/500970/

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New $15M grocery/shopping center gets green light for Walden. https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/breakingnews/story/2019/aug/12/panel-approves-walden-grocery-store/500986/

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Chattanooga-based mall owner/manager CBL Properties is redeveloping  two dozen anchor stores at 14 of their malls.  Here the company is already underway with its revamping of the former Sears store into Dave and Busters, Dick's Sporting Goods & an Aloft Hotel in a town center concept. Cheesecake Factory has already opened above the former Sears parking lot.  

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/breakingnews/story/2019/aug/12/cbl-transforms-stores/500966/

Hoping the owner of the St. George can get her plan together and start on its renovation. It's a great throwback building that until recently had great legacy neon marquee and other signs along its Market Street entrance.

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Hoping the owner (or future owner) of the St. George can get her (or his) plan going on renovating the old building dating back to the 1920s. The building across the street from the Chattanooga Choo Choo (up until recently) had legacy neon marquee lighting at its Market St. entrance. 

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/breakingnews/story/2019/aug/12/judge-hear-more-arguments-st-george-hotel-law/500992/

From the TFP:  St. George Holdings, a company controlled by Alder, bought the building in 2013 and has plans for a new hotel at the site. Hutcherson loaned her $700,000 in 2017 to get the project started, court papers show.

Alder said in the suit she tried last last year to repay Hutcherson, managing partner at the city's biggest locally owned accounting firm, Henderson Hutcherson & McCullough. But Hutcherson wouldn't accept the money and rather wanted to take ownership of the 1445 Market St. location.

Hutcherson, in a counterclaim, said he's exercising his right to buy the site in accordance with an option agreement in the contract in the event Alder didn't receive and close on a development loan on or before Dec. 8, 2018.

 

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Finland-based tire maker Nokian has a $360M plant underway in suburban Dayton, TN and the 27K administration building is now under construction. The plant will employ over 400 people in Rhea Co., fifteen miles north of downtown Chattanooga. 

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/breakingnews/story/2019/aug/19/nokian-tyres-new-administration-facility/501511/

CHA Airport (Lovell Field)  expansion plans include hotels, residential and office buildings (up to 750k sq. ft). https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2019/aug/06/chattanoogmetropolitairport-areplforesees-new/500617/

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Austin Hatcher Foundation will anchor the renovation of old Rock-Tenn factory southeast of downtown. The $40M is a huge shot in the arm for that sector of town, similar to the Wagon Works on Broad St. south of downtown. https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/breakingnews/story/2019/aug/05/austhatcher-foundatianchor-40-milliproject/500499/

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There are several new apartment projects underway downtown. 

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/business/aroundregion/story/2019/aug/01/more-riverfront-apartments-coming-early-2020/500314/

From the TFP:  Despite an influx of other apartment additions in and around downtown Chattanooga, a Georgia developer is spending more than $40 million to construct a 280-unit apartment complex off of Riverside Drive near the Erlanger Health Center's main campus.

But this project is in an area that has not seen a lot of residential development lately.  

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