Developers of a sprawling planned 70-acre waterfront residential and commercial project just outside downtown Chattanooga are proposing a new marina on the Tennessee River.
The marina is slated to hold 71 boat slips as well as pull-up side-ties for vessels, said Scott Williamson, vice president for Fletcher Bright Co., about the water amenity planned at the River’s Edge at South Chick development at Amnicola Highway and Judd Road.
“It allows people access to this section of the river,” Williamson said in a phone interview Monday about the project that’s one of a half dozen new or planned waterfront residential developments in or near downtown.
He said the boat slips will be available to both residents and nonresidents of the proposed project where more than 900 units are planned in the complex estimated at between $400 million and $450 million when entirely built out.
Williamson said this section of the river doesn’t have a lot of dock space.