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April 12, 2022
Volkswagen's Chattanooga production plant is embarking on its biggest hiring surge since the factory opened more than a decade ago as it launches the assembly of its first electric vehicle in July.
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May 13, 2022
The Songbirds Foundation invites Chattanooga music and film fans to an exclusive screening of the Emmy Award-Winning documentary, “Songbirds,” Sunday, May 29.
Out of Spec Reviews video talking about her then fresh EV, is back with a long-term review of her electric SUV. One year and 28,000 miles later, Lisa continues to be very happy with her ID.
One of the biggest residential and commercial projects on Chattanooga's riverfront is planned for a 70-acre tract off Amnicola Highway that for many years held the Central Soya feed mill.
May 8, 2022
Volkswagen is getting ready to give its successful ID.3 electric hatchback its mid-lifecycle refresh, but the facelift will bring a lot more than just a nip and tuck, according to a new report. Apparently, with next year’s refresh, VW will also introduce the much anticipated ID.
May 7, 2022
Kelly and Ezra Reynolds wanted to start a family. When they couldn’t get pregnant, they found a non-profit that finds families for orphans, internationally, with Down Syndrome and other special needs. The couple ended up adopting 3 girls with special needs and 1 boy with a disability from Ukraine. Their journey to build a family took them five thousand miles from here.
May 5, 2022
CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) — Miller Plaza was just stop number one for Storytelling Spaces, which features several Chattanooga artists — all of whom received grants from the Project for Public Spaces.
May 2, 2022
Rarely have so many Americans gained so much equity in so little time, but it’s also inseparable from the housing affordability crisis. Over the past two years, Americans who own their homes have gained more than $6 trillion in housing wealth.
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One of Chattanooga's oldest real estate companies is joining with well-known central city property management and development groups in an estimated $60 million merger. Fidelity Trust Co.
April 30, 2022
A German media outlet is reporting that top officials at Volkswagen are seriously considering building a second plant in the United States, and are considering building a second plant next to the current one in Chattanooga. We reached out to Volkswagen Chattanooga spokeswoman Amanda Plecas about this report, and she responded that it is "just speculation at this point," but told us she would watch out for additional information to share.
April 24, 2022
Thirty years ago this week, lines of children dressed as bass, bluegill and other aquatic animals wiggled and giggled down Broad Street to the thrumming refrain of a marching band to mark the opening of the Tennessee Aquarium.
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April 23, 2022
Tennessee Aquarium president and CEO Keith Sanford has announced the addition of two new positions to the aquarium's senior leadership team.
When Eric Fuller took over U.S. Xpress from his father, Max, in 2017, the younger Fuller began taking steps to improve freight efficiency and lower driver turnover at Chattanooga's biggest trucking company and one of the nation's largest long-haul trucking companies.
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CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – Chattanooga has landed a new flight to Miami. American Airlines begins their Miami service on Saturday, May 7th.
Tyson Morris will succeed Brent Messer in the Tennessee city—which has a 10-gigabit network.
April 21, 2022
When a Ukrainian former college student who had fled to Poland reached out to Takeo Suzuki to describe just how dire the situation was in her home country, Suzuki knew he had to act. “She’s twenty-something, and we see twenty-somethings over here all the time.
Nightfall, Chattanooga’s longest-running outdoor summer concert series will celebrate its 35th season this year with a 15-week season of free outdoor concerts held at Miller Plaza beginning Friday, May 27 and continuing every Friday through September 2.
April 16, 2022
At some point, as the businesses just kept proliferating, Ronald Ramsey and Chad Eichelberger started making a list. Reliance Partners. Steam Logistics. Trident Transport. Taimen Transport. LYNC Logistics. Avenger Logistics.
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April 15, 2022
More than 150 townhomes are planned in a pair of Chattanooga projects as developers seek to fill what they see as a need in the city's hot housing market. Both developments, approved by the city's Form-Based Code Committee on Thursday, are just outside the downtown core.
April 14, 2022
The most new housing South Chattanooga has seen in about a decade is starting to come out of the ground as work has begun on an affordable housing apartment complex slated to open in winter 2023.
In March 2020, in a matter of only a few days, schools, churches, restaurants and offices of all sizes were emptied out as employers sent their workers home as the COVID-19 outbreak worsened. Two years later, most people have finally resumed more normal lives.
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