Northshore Heights, a new, 77-home, upper-end North Chattanooga housing development, ceremoniously broke ground Tuesday.
The planned community of eventual craftsman- and tudor-style houses (with price points ranging from somewhere north of $300,000 to around $550,000) is located on 10 acres off Dartmouth Street. The project’s start of home construction comes two years after developers first announced intentions to build a $20 million subdivision on the site.
Southside-based GreenTech Homes owns and is developing the property. GreenTech also is handling all construction at Northshore Heights.
The project overcame early objections from surrounding neighbors, who back in 2014 said they feared the influx of new homes would magnify existing traffic troubles in the old urban neighborhood. A hidden cemetery located near the entrance of Northshore Heights also at one point gave pause to progress, though it was ultimately determined by city officials and historians the historic cemetery would not be affected by the construction of new homes on the adjacent property.
And now, the first two homes at Northshore Heights are nearing completion.