Under Construction: Chattanooga Lifestyle Center

Cordell Carter, CEO of TechTown, points out video editing rooms on a tour of the facility.
Cordell Carter, CEO of TechTown, points out video editing rooms on a tour of the facility.

Project: Chattanooga Lifestyle Center.

Location: 325 Market St.

Size: 61,496 square feet, with Tech Town occupying 23,000 square feet.

Owner: Noon Development, LLC, Chattanooga.

Contractor: T.U. Parks Construction Co., Chattanooga.

Architects: Artech Design Group, March Adams and Associates, Cogent Studio and Advanced Energy Engineering and Design.

History: Noon Development, owned by Todd Phillips and John Foy, bought the circa- 1920s building from Erlanger Health System for $4 million in October.

Scope: The first floor will be retail; the second floor will be devoted to Tech Town; the third floor will be occupied by Erlanger. Tech Town, owned and founded by Paul Cummings, is a youth-focused technology and entrepreneurial learning center with a coding studio, film-making studio and robotics lab space. Students will be able print 3-D objects and sell them in the Tech Town store. Chattanooga will be the flagship location for a national chain that Tech Town leaders aim to create with eventual locations in Seattle, Norfolk, Va., New Orleans, Chicago and Washington D.C.

Schedule: Tech Town is scheduled to open in late June. Around 8,500 square feet of space on the first floor is still available for leasing.

Online: www.gotechtown.com.

Contact: Peter Avisto at McCormick and Co. for leasing, 423-602-9800.

Contact staff writer Alex Green at agreen@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6480.

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