Chattanooga and Hamilton County officials overseeing the building of a new Chattanooga Lookouts stadium in the South Broad District and the issuance of bonds later this year to pay for it, plan to walk the proposed old foundry site.
Panel members are to meet possibly in October on the 127-acre parcel between Broad Street and Interstate 24 to see firsthand the layout of the ballpark and some of the rundown buildings that designers plan to integrate into the stadium’s design.
“I think it’s an excellent idea,” said Ann Weeks, a member of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Sports Authority, at a meeting Thursday.
Jermaine Freeman, interim chief of staff for Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly, offered the suggestion to tour the former U.S. Pipe/Wheland Foundry tract where the planned new Lookouts stadium is to go up.
“We think it will be a valuable exercise for this body to actually walk around and get a feel for the site,” he told the panel. “A lot of it is secluded and cut off.”