Readers of the Chattanooga Times Free Press participated in an online poll to select the top news stories of 2023. Here are the top stories, in order of most reader votes:
Remaking of the Westside and The Bend
Two major projects could remake the downtown Chattanooga riverfront. Officials approved a new tax zone to help spur up to $2 billion of new downtown development by revitalizing 300 acres of the Westside and the city’s oldest public housing project. Plans would allow thousands of new homes, more than 1 million square feet of commercial space and a new riverfront park. Chattanooga Housing Authority is trying to raise money to rebuild College Hill Courts and developers plan offices, storefronts, medical facilities, apartments and condos on the former Alstom Power site.
Pedestrian deaths