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‘There was a little bump in the road’: Notable quotes from a week in Chattanooga area news

Staff Photo by Robin Rudd / Jim Irwin, president of New City Properties, speaks to the media June 12, 2025.
Staff Photo by Robin Rudd / Jim Irwin, president of New City Properties, speaks to the media June 12, 2025. Staff Photo by Robin Rudd / Jim Irwin, president of New City Properties, speaks to the media June 12, 2025.


People who had a way with words in the news last week:

“Prudent developers will wait as long as they can to give facts, because when I look at you in the eye and tell you something, I want it to be true.”

– Jim Irwin, president of New City Properties and master developer of the Lookouts’ stadium site, on why New City isn’t sharing an exact budget or timeline for a delayed 290-unit residential building by the stadium.

“Somehow, the field is being sold as an amenity to those apartments.”