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Staff Photo by Danielle Moore People gather in the lobby of the Chattanooga Choo-Choo for a presentation celebrating the 100th anniversary Tuesday morning.
Officials gathered at the Chattanooga Choo Choo this morning to celebrate terminal Station’s centennial anniversary.
Former Chattanooga Mayor Jon Kinsey is managing partner of Choo Choo Partners, the group of about 30 investors that bought the defunct train station on Friday the 13th, 21 years ago.
“That was a lucky day,” he said. “This property has never been in better shape.”
The hotel recently dropped its 20-year partnership with Holiday Inn and now operates under the Historic Hotels of America, which General Manager Jim Bambrey called “exciting and promising.”
“We’re on new grounds,” he said. “We feel very good about the future.”
The hotel will continue its celebration by hosting an open house tonight from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
Huh? I think there is some missing history... 21 years ago was 1988. The Choo-Choo complex as we know it has been around from the early 1970's. This paper printed a quote from a Choo-Choo official stating something along the lines that the Choo Choo is responsible for the success of the southside. I laugh at that. Sadly, Mayor Jon Kinsey, son in law of convicted felon Ward Crutchfield, has done nothing to improve the complex since he purchased it 21 years ago. It caters to tour bus operators and dog conventions. It is an embarrassment to Chattanooga.
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