From the rooftop overlook atop the newly renovated Burnside development near Rossville Boulevard and Main Street, Camden Croxall can see his office at Keller Williams Realty on Washington Street on Chattanooga’s redeveloping Southside.
Croxall, a 22-year-old Realtor at Keller Williams, said he wanted to live in Chattanooga’s downtown area and Burnside offered a perfect blend of the past and future.
“I think it’s a really cool project that shows off where Chattanooga is going and how we appreciate where Chattanooga was in the past,” said Croxall, whose father Mike heads the building firm that is renovating the former paper factory into a complex of apartments and commercial space at 2100 Rossville Boulevard. “I love the concept here and thought it would be great to live in it and to be in close proximity to my work and all the great things happening downtown.”
Croxall, who moved into one of the one-bedroom apartments in the three-story former Acme Box Co., warehouse in late May, was the first tenant in what the developers have branded as the Burnside neighborhood. When fully developed, Burnside is expected to include more than $25 million of apartments, new homes, a restaurant and commercial development in one of the oldest parts of Chattanooga.
The complex is named after Oliver Burnside Andrews, the founder of Andrews Paper Box Co. who built the brick structure more than a century ago.