Residents and guests mingle Thursday at the grand opening.In the bitter gray afternoon Thursday, a hearty crowd gathered at the brand-new, $9 million Chattanooga at Shallowford Morning Pointe Assisted Living Residence to celebrate the newest senior housing complex on its debut day.
Things didn’t go altogether as planned, thanks to the unusual weather.
Franklin Farrow, chief operating officer at Independent Healthcare Properties, LLC — the Chattanooga company that owns and operates Morning Pointe — joked that normally, the Greater Chattanooga-Area Chamber of Commerce brings good weather on ribbon-cutting days.
But Thursday it was cold. And windy. And icy in higher elevations.
Because area schools were out, the JROTC unit scheduled to appear cancelled. The high school musicians scheduled to close out the event cancelled.