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Hub of Chattanooga’s new Innovation District to hold open house tonight

Co.Lab employees Tia Capps, left, and Allison Reedy work Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at the Edney Building.
Co.Lab employees Tia Capps, left, and Allison Reedy work Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at the Edney Building.

If you go

The Edney Innovation Center open house will be held tonight from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. This event is open to the public and provides the opportunity to tour the entire Innovation Center and meet current tenants. Free food and beverages will be provided. The Edney is at 1100 Market St., with the entrance on 11th Street. Street parking is available on surrounding streets of the Edney as well as nearby surface lots.

What’s all the hubbub about the Edney Building, the hub of Chattanooga’s new downtown Innovation District?

Find out tonight at an open house at the 11-story (counting the roof-top “gathering space”) former Tennessee Valley Authority office at the corner of Market and 11th streets across from the landmark Patten Towers.

The Edney is now a privately owned office building that caters to creative workers in Chattanooga’s “entrepreneurial ecosystem.”

Nondescript on the outside, the 90,000-square-foot building has been updated to shed its past as a cubicle farm for federal office workers.