WHAT’S NEXT
If the planned Sculpture Flats mixed-use project receives the necessary city approvals, work could start next spring, with completion about this time in 2017, officials said.
A Chattanooga developer is planning nearly two dozen new residential units, along with work space, off East Main Street as the Southside’s renewal continues to spill down that artery.
“It continues the momentum started [in the Southside],” said Jay Martin, managing partner of the Chattanooga design/build and development firm Renew.
Called Sculpture Flats, the mixed-use development would go up at 1155 E. Main St. on the site of a tire retail store located near well-known sculptor John Henry’s studio. The Sculpture Fields at Montague Park also is not far away.
Martin said the mixed-use project, estimated at more than $2 million, would provide 22 residential units, including six live-work flats. In addition, the existing building would be redone and hold about 4,000 square feet of commercial space, he said.