Your Tuesday at a glance:
- Weather: High of 69.
- What needs help: Here’s how Chattanooga area residents can help local food banks address growing local food insecurity around the holidays.
- What to eat: Biscuits. And this recipe only calls for two ingredients.
- What’s opening (and closing and expanding): Check out this list of all of the area business that opened, closed or expanded in the Chattanooga area last month.
Good morning, Chattanooga!
615.
That’s how many successful businesses have gone through the Hamilton County Business Development Center’s INCubator program in the last 33 years.
According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, half of all U.S. startup businesses fail within their first five years. But the INCubator, in North Shore, has a 94% success and survival rate.
“The incubator provides not only lower building and utility costs when businesses are getting started, it also brings together a diverse mix of entrepreneurs who learn from one another about building their businesses,” said Bill Lupia, the program’s director.
Now for some recent stories:
ICYMI: Here are photos from this weekend’s Erlanger Chattanooga Marathon Weekend.
RIGHT ON TRACK: This Ocoee River bridge is on track to be completed by the spring of 2022.
PRICE BREAKS: The TVA is extending its pandemic-era price breaks into the new year.
– Tierra Hayes, thayes@timesfreepress.com
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