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UTC shares first look at Engel Stadium redevelopment

Contributed rendering by The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga / Early renderings show the university's plans for the redevelopment of Engel Stadium. While the images showed the overall direction of the project, details could change throughout the phases of planning, UTC Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Brent Goldberg said in a press release.
Contributed rendering by The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga / Early renderings show the university's plans for the redevelopment of Engel Stadium. While the images showed the overall direction of the project, details could change throughout the phases of planning, UTC Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Brent Goldberg said in a press release. Contributed rendering by The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga / Early renderings show the university's plans for the redevelopment of Engel Stadium. While the images showed the overall direction of the project, details could change throughout the phases of planning, UTC Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Brent Goldberg said in a press release.

Early designs for the redevelopment of the Engel Stadium site, which will house a women’s athletic complex, a new health department facility and other facilities, were released Thursday by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Current plans include a new women’s athletics complex supported by a seven-figure gift announced last year, in addition to soccer and beach volleyball facilities, shared training and meeting areas, locker rooms for softball, parking spaces for close to 300 vehicles and room for a new Hamilton County Health Department location. A dedicated indoor hitting facility for softball will replace one at Warner Park, officials said, and the new soccer stadium seats 2,000 people.

While the images showed the overall direction of the project, details could change throughout the phases of planning, UTC Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Brent Goldberg said in a press release.

UTC shares first look at Engel Stadium redevelopment

From 1930 to 1999, the Chattanooga Lookouts called the field home, but the facilities have been largely unused since it was used as a filming location for “42” in 2012. Baseball legends Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron all stepped onto the site, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

(READ MORE: Diamond getting rough: Years of disuse have left Historic Engel Stadium in a deteriorated state)