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February 7, 2023
The biggest home sale ever in Chattanooga was scheduled to close Tuesday when a California millionaire agreed to buy a 23,000-square-foot mansion on Chickamauga Lake for $17 million, or nearly twice as much as any previous residential sale in Hamilton County.
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February 3, 2023
A longtime Brainerd office park may see more than 100 new townhomes go up as one of its owners injects housing into the sprawling business center for the first time.
The need for affordable housing in Chattanooga is growing, but how do you get developers to make more units available?The City of Chattanooga is now offering fe
February 2, 2023
A proposal to build a mix of shops, residences, offices, a boutique hotel and parking is restarting in the heart of St. Elmo after a pandemic slowdown. The updated version may turn out bigger than the original.
January 31, 2023
Do you live in one of the top 5 wealthiest areas of Tennessee? According to over ten years of data, Nashville has the greatest number of households earning more than $200K, with 8,810 households in 2013 and 28,083 households in 2019.
Beginning in July, almost $3 million in federal funds will be available to support the creation of affordable housing units in the city of Chattanooga as part of three local programs managed by the city's division of housing and community investment.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) – Starting this week, the Chattanooga Public Library will offer free museum passes that provide admission to the Hunter Museum of American Arts. These free museum passes cover admission for two adults to the Hunter Museum and are valid for seven days.
January 28, 2023
Chattanooga's scenic and historic attractions are gaining national attention this weekend with the airing of the travel series "RV There Yet?" on the Discovery Channel and other streaming television services.
January 27, 2023
Chattanooga is the featured destination in the upcoming season two, episode five of the national television series RV There Yet? on the Discovery Channel. RV There Yet? is a reality travel series about a road trip to explore America’s National Parks featuring adventurous detours along the way.
January 25, 2023
The vehicles on your average U.S. road look far more like the ones on your average European road than they did 40 or 50 years ago. But this graphical overlay reminds us that some things are still very different on either side of the Atlantic Ocean.
The city of Chattanooga is making a formal request for a developer and service provider to help convert a vacant motel into about 70 units of housing for people transitioning out of homelessness. In October 2021, the city purchased the former Airport Inn at 7725 Lee Highway for $2.
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(TNS) — Mud squelches underfoot as a procession of volunteers navigates a wooded footpath in Chattanooga, Tenn., careful to step around puddles, wet leaves and protruding branches.
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Three floors of apartments along with a level of parking are planned in a project that would bring 48 units of new multifamily housing to South Chattanooga. Chattanoogan Eda Walldorf, who owns the proposed site, said in a telephone interview there's a need for the new apartments.
January 24, 2023
Chattanooga-based GreenTech Homes has launched its biggest-ever development as the builder has started work on a new neighborhood in Hixson called The Farmstead.
January 23, 2023
Three years after building one of the largest apartment complexes in Hixson, an Atlanta real estate and development company has begun work on an even bigger apartment complex near Hamilton Place mall in East Brainerd.
January 19, 2023
The Chattanooga development firm Rise Partners has purchased one of the last undeveloped blocks in downtown Chattanooga. The block has been used as a parking lot since the Civic Forum building was torn down on the site nearly two decades ago.
January 18, 2023
Tennessee and Georgia motorists enjoy the lowest operating and maintenance costs for their cars and trucks in the country, according to a new study. The personal finance website WalletHub compared the average prices of gasoline, insurance, repair expenses and road conditions to rank the 50 U.S.
Connect For Good, led by EPB with the Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition and the City of Chattanooga, raised $67,295, all of which directly funded the Flexible Housing Fund to help those experiencing homelessness secure permanent housing.
January 16, 2023
Are higher housing costs holding you back from purchasing a home? That wouldn't be surprising considering that US housing affordability fell to a 10-year low, the National Association of Home Builders announced in November.
January 11, 2023
The Hamilton County Planning Commission approved a micro home project downtown Monday, despite concerns from neighbors.Developer Rashad Jennings says he's looki
January 10, 2023
The project, estimated at from $60 million to $80 million, would put the planned housing in the heart of the South Broad District on a now mostly vacant tract at Williams and West 27th streets, said Allen Jones of Stone Creek Consulting in an interview.
Seven former Kenco warehouses were sold last month for more than $67 million in the biggest property sale in Hamilton County in 2022.
Chattanooga’s ‘Conservation Kid’ is leading the fight against pollution. Cash Daniels’ interest in conservation began at a young age. Daniels was 7-years old when he first became concerned about pollution in the water.
January 5, 2023
Seoul Robotics, the company powering smart 3D infrastructure solutions, on Wednesday announced it will expand its partnership with the Chattanooga Department of Innovation Delivery and Performance, and the Center of Urban Informatics and Progress (CUIP) at UTC, the smart city and urbanization resear
January 4, 2023
December is often a whirlwind of activities as families celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah, dash from store to store in search of the perfect gift for special ones, gather together to remember the past and make plans for the new year.
For many people, the turn of a calendar year is a time to look ahead with hope at what the new year might bring collectively and personally. But many this time of year during the festive holiday season like to look back.
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A double-double machine, Stephens has been a huge part of Chattanooga’s early season success. The transfer spent four years at VMI leading up to this season, earning 2021-22 All-Southern Conference First Team honors.
When Nikki Bryant was a child, the library was a place for books, research and the occasional puppet show. Now, standing on the fourth floor of the Chattanooga Public Library's downtown branch, things look a little different. Her husband, Michael Bryant Jr.
Rob Praino had noticed all the newcomers to Chattanooga for a while. But by May 2020, the data confirmed his observations. "People are starting to see the benefit of a smaller market like Chattanooga," says Praino, director of memberships for Common House social club.
This story was updated to correct who owns Hawk Hill where the current Chattanooga Lookouts baseball stadium is located.
January 2, 2023
Donating blood: It sounds so simple.But as we begin a new year, there continues to be a critical need for it all across the country.Christopher Swafford, the ch
1. COVID-19 at long last began to recede from our lives and our headlines as more people came around to getting vaccinated and taking common-sense precautions. 2.
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NASHVILLE -- Tennesseans will see a handful of new laws go into effect Jan. 1, among them a pro-consumer law making it easier to cancel online subscription-based products and services.
January 1, 2023
In 2009, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee consolidated its headquarters staff that had been working in 10 different buildings in Chattanooga into a new $299 million headquarters facility built atop Cameron Hill overlooking downtown Chattanooga.
Photography by Mark Gilliland / Baron King, Emilly Elrod, Jennifer and Jason Fritts attend the Chattanooga Chamber Downtown Council's 20th anniversary party at the Chattanoogan Hotel Nov. 4.
December 28, 2022
According to a news release from the Chattanooga Design Studio and the city's parks and outdoors department, the design process will begin in early 2023 and will involve input from residents in nearby neighborhoods and groups that frequently use the space.
December 27, 2022
When it comes to history, politicians and generals get all the glory, while no one gives credit to the engineers. Stephen Harriman Long is an interesting example. Were it not for Long, the city of Chattanooga might not exist.
December 26, 2022
Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly calls himself "an old car guy," having grown up in the auto business and operating dealerships himself before running for political office. In an interview, he termed Volkswagen's launch of production of the all-electric ID.
Chattanooga's jobless rate declined last month as holiday hiring pushed unemployment in the six-county metropolitan area down two-tenths of a percent to 3.1%, the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development reported Thursday.
Imagine the TV game show, "Cash Cab" mixed with James Corden's comedy segment, "Carpool Karaoke" and throw in a dash of the movie, "Magic Mike." Welcome to Beverly Salhany's unique business model -- Magic Karaoke Rides.
Average gasoline prices in Chattanooga have fallen 5.7 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.58 per gallon on Monday, according to GasBuddy's survey of 170 stations in Chattanooga. Prices in Chattanooga are 43.3 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 32.
December 25, 2022
On Chirstmas Eve The Forgotten Child Fund held their annual
December 23, 2022
November’s unemployment numbers improved in a majority of Tennessee’s 95 counties, according to newly released data from the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Hamilton County saw a 0.3 point decline in unemployment from October to November, falling from 3.5% to 3.2%.
December 20, 2022
The Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport is a quarter of the way into a $28-million expansion of its passenger terminal, and air traffic in and out continues to grow, just shy of pre-pandemic levels.
December 17, 2022
Veritas International, a new logistics company, has officially launched its business with the grand opening of its world headquarters in Chattanooga.
December 15, 2022
A Chattanooga baker is truly serving up something sweet.Dan
Whether increased regulation would have prevented the spectacular collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX was fiercely debated at a hearing of the Senate’s banking committee Wednesday. However, new legislation is potentially on the way. Sen.
Our guests: Todd Morgan, director of Preserve Chattanooga – and Dan Reuter, City Planning Administrator and Executive Director of the Regional Plan Association, funded by the City of Chattanooga and Hamilton County with additional funding from other jurisdictions.
In January 2016, then-Mayor Andy Berke signed Chattanooga up for a national Better Buildings challenge and pledged to cut the city's energy use by at least 20% over the next decade.
Gasoline prices fell in the past week to their lowest level in 16 months, saving the typical car owner more than $20 for a tankful of gasoline compared to the peak prices paid six months ago.
EPB remains the highest-rated mid-sized utility in the South for customer service and reliability, according to a new report by J.D. Power, the leading consumer and marketing research organization for rating businesses. For the seventh consecutive year, J.D.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) – TripAdvisor has named the Scenic City as the top trending winter destination this season, beating out seasonal travel hot-spots Orlando and Miami. The Chattanooga Tourism Co.
Despite a year-end drop in home sales, Chattanooga is projected to be one of the nation's top 10 markets next year for gains in home sales and prices as home buyers continue to move toward growing markets with more affordable housing options.
December 8, 2022
A Girls Preparatory School athlete is the first female from Chattanooga to be named Soccer All-American by the United Soccer Coaches, the school says.On Sunday,
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- The Main X 24 Festival brought many to celebrate how Chattanooga’s Southside has grown. The festival began in 2007 by a non-profit initiative called CreateHere. It has since grown due to the work put in by businesses and residents of Main Street.
For the first time in nearly two years, gasoline prices have fallen below their year-ago levels. The average price of regular gas in Chattanooga declined 11.2 cents a gallon in the past week to drop to its lowest level since January. Chattanooga's average price of $2.
A South Carolina company is planning to build a composting facility on a 5.5-acre tract just outside downtown Chattanooga that's slated to start operation by mid-2023. Atlas Organics is seeking a permit from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation for the location at 1045 E.
December 7, 2022
More than 56,000 square feet of space is eyed for The Fountains on Highway 153, which currently holds Academy Sports + Outdoors and Kohl's, a site plan filed with the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Agency shows. Aventine Development Service Corp.
December 3, 2022
Volkswagen's electric car lineup is now mature enough that it's introducing second-generation models — and it appears the company is taking some criticism to heart. VW has teased a redesign of the ID.3 that addresses complaints about the first version while upgrading the technology.
December 1, 2022
Building on a joint project to run quantum cybersecurity technologies, EPB and Qubitekk have joined together to launch America’s first industry-led, commercially available quantum network in Chattanooga, officials said Wednesday.
For four country singers whose roots are in Chattanooga, 2022 has been a career-boosting year highlighted with awards, industry recognition and even a Grand Ole Opry induction. In February, Lauren Alaina received country music's highest honor: induction into the Grand Ole Opry.
November 30, 2022
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The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Library’s Special Collections department has secured a grant to digitize documents and photographs detailing the history of labor and industry in Chattanooga.
Our Share Your Christmas food drive is just 11 days away. The food bank provides shelf stable items to our neighbors in need -- but they also have a garden program that gives clients fresh options to chose from.
Downtown Chattanooga's trendy Southside will hold the city's first Hyatt hotel as a developer plans a five-level, 123-room location near the key Main and Market streets corner. A nearly new brand called the Caption by Hyatt will go up at 105 W. Main St.
November 29, 2022
A 112-year-old building that held the Classic Coin and Jewelry store in downtown Chattanooga for decades is seeing a restoration aimed at bringing back the shine to the historic three-story brick structure.
November 27, 2022
Growth continues in and around the Nashville area with LG Chem pledging this week to invest $3.2 billion and create 850 new jobs — the single-largest foreign direct investment in Tennessee history. The plant, located in Clarksville, will be the largest cathode manufacturing facility in the U.
Hundreds of people start new businesses in Chattanooga each year. About half of them make it through the first five years. And most don't make it past the 10-year threshold.
November 26, 2022
Norfolk Southern Corp. has agreed to buy the Cincinnati Southern Railway for $1.62 billion to provide the Atlanta-based Norfolk Southern with another 337 miles of rail line between Cincinnati and Chattanooga.
November 21, 2022
The Naughty Cat Cafe in Chattanooga recently reached a major milestone: its 1,000th adoption. Heath Hanson and Whitney Sickels mortgaged their home to start the Naughty Cat, Chattanooga's first and only cat cafe, in 2019.
November 17, 2022
After awarding $300,000 in grants for small businesses in Chattanooga over the past five years, Chattanooga's biggest credit union is expanding its Idea Leap competition this year to provide more such grants with separate competitions in Chattanooga, Cleveland, Tennessee, and Dalton, Georgia.
The University of Tennessee, Chattanooga’s Urban Vision Institute (UVI), in partnership with LAUNCH, announces the inaugural graduation of its Bootcamp for Entrepreneurs.
Chattanooga is one of five communities in the nation that will serve as an apprenticeship opportunity hub, or what’s called an Apprentice Innovation District, aimed at youth and adults. Selected by BuildWithin, a software company and national apprenticeship intermediary approved by the U.S.
The Chattanooga City Council has approved the rezoning of the Airport Inn on Lee Highway Tuesday, allowing the abandoned former motel to move forward in its transformation into permanent supportive housing. The project is part of Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly's plan to address homelessness.
Our 38th annual Share Your Christmas™ is Friday, December 9th. It is a chance for you to help the Chattanooga Area Food Bank provide for our neighbors in need.
November 16, 2022
Contemporary Jazz recording artist and radio personality Brian Clay is bringing his syndicated radio show, Jazzspirations with Brian Clay, to the Chattanooga airwaves. The program begins airing in Chattanooga on Friday on WPTP 100.1FM radio and will air every Friday evening from 5-8 p.m.
November 15, 2022
The Chattanooga Lookouts (Double-A; Southern League) are determining the layout of a new Chattanooga ballpark on a former industrial site and may include old foundry buildings in the plan. The new Chattanooga ballpark would be part of a 141-acre Wheland Foundry/U.S.
November 14, 2022
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- We are learning more about the changes coming to the Chattanooga Choo Choo. A full scale renovation is underway at the Choo Choo Hotel and Gardens.
Early this year, Katherine Hesler, an archaeology doctorate student at Lipscomb University in Nashville, came home to Chattanooga to get her wisdom teeth out. While still recovering, she got an unexpected phone call.
November 12, 2022
The world’s largest autonomous vehicle test, conducted by Vanderbilt University and several other universities in cooperation with Nissan, Toyota, General Motors, and the Tennessee DOT, will commence next week.
November 9, 2022
Firefighters have collected critical funds in the community since 1954 – one dollar at a time – as part of the Fill the Boot program for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA).
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Chattanooga gas stations continued to offer the cheapest gasoline prices in Tennessee during the past week as average fuel prices declined, while diesel prices rose again, according to the online pricing service GasBuddy.com. The average price of regular gas in Chattanooga dropped 9.
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) — The Chattanooga Tourism Co. held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its brand-new Chattanooga Information Center Friday afternoon. The new building is in the “front yard” of the Tennessee Aquarium and is there to help everyone who visits feel like a Chattanoogan.
Parks are huge economic drivers to cities and not just green spaces that sit in isolation, says the former commissioner of the New York City Parks Department who'll be in Chattanooga this week. "You can't have a great city without a great parks system," said Mitchell J.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The Scenic City is evolving rapidly and the logistics industry is a major player in its growth story.
People from the UTC and wider Chattanooga area gathered at UTC this past week at a community forum to discuss the problem with homelessness in Chattanooga.
The City of Chattanooga invites the public to join Leslie Jordan’s family, friends and creative family for a special event to cherish and celebrate his life at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium at 5 p.m. on Nov. 20. The event, which Jordan’s friends and family have dubbed “Love.
November 5, 2022
When Colin and Jenoa Matthes left their home state of Utah to embark on a world tour in 2019, they found themselves drawn to the food scenes in places like France and Italy.
November 3, 2022
The Chattanooga City Council tonight adopted the Westside Evolves Plan, which provides a ten-year strategy for change in the city’s oldest public housing commun
November 1, 2022
The trucking industry is shifting gears as new technologies and a changing global order revamp how and where goods are shipped around the globe, industry leaders said Tuesday during the first day of a three-day convention in Chattanooga on the future of freight.
Photography courtesy McKee Foods / Early McKee Foods production line photo. Workers would pipe creme and cap cookies by hand. These processes are all modernized today. Then The McKee Foods story began in 1934 during the height of the Great Depression when founder O.D.
Train cars from the historic Chattanooga Choo Choo are being removed as a part of a restoration effort for the historic site, a press release says.For the resto
October 31, 2022
Three years ago when the Associated General Contractors was looking for a new training ground to get more workers to go into construction, Chattanooga City Coun
Every county in Tennessee recorded unemployment rates below 5% in September, according to the latest data from the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. September also marked the second consecutive month that rates decreased in each of the state’s 95 counties.
October 26, 2022
The Hefty® EnergyBag® program just expanded to Hamilton and Bradley County, giving residents an easy addition to their current recycling efforts in order to convert hard-to-recycle plastics into valued resources.
(TNS) — As EPB's manager of fiber services engineering and one of the utility's tech pros, Matt Anderson has been testing EPB's new Smart Net Plus for the past nine months.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- Leslie Jordan was an icon to so many here in the Tennessee Valley and across the world. For those who got to know the man, they have many stories to tell.
United Way of Greater Chattanooga is launching a high-impact, low-ratio tutoring program for Tennessee public school students in first through eighth grade to help accelerate learning.
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