A car crashed into one of Chattanooga’s youth and family development centers Friday, after community leaders had warned that exact thing would happen.
Less than a year ago, Chattanooga opened a new, state-of-the-art center in the Avondale neighborhood. The $10 million project was designed to offer a better facility, more activities and access to resources to the community, and was the first overhaul of its kind within the city.
While many described the project as a “dream” coming true for the neighborhood after 70 years in the previous facility, some community leaders and elected officials warned that the facility’s location, just feet off of the roadway at the busy intersection of Wilcox Boulevard and Dodson Avenue, might put visitors at risk.
Those fears were realized Friday, just seven months after the project opened.