A nearly 1,000-space parking garage planned at the former Alstom site has won approval from a Chattanooga panel and will help spur a proposed nearby 10-story office building, a developer said Thursday.
The six-story, 972-space garage would be one of the biggest parking decks in the downtown area, and work is slated to start next year, said Jimmy White, who is developing the longtime former manufacturing site off Riverfront Parkway.
White said after a city planning meeting that plans are for the office building to start at about the same time as construction of the garage on the south end of the parcel off West 19th Street.
“We do have letters of intent on the building,” he said about leases on that space.
Also, White said, medical offices are planned nearby at the 121-acre tract along the Tennessee River, which has been rebranded as The Bend.