A company inquired with the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce about building a data center at Enterprise South Industrial Park, but an official said the city and Hamilton County want the park reserved for manufacturers who create more jobs.
The chamber had to provide honest feedback to the company that it should look at other sites, said Adam Myers, the chamber’s vice president of economic and talent development.
“We had a conversation recently with one data center that wanted to look at potential property owned by the city and the county,” Myers said during a panel at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on Wednesday. “We heard from our city and county partners that, well, we really want to preserve that land for manufacturing for higher job creation uses than what this data center was providing.”
Myers did not share the name of the company or the size of its project. The chamber declined to share the information.
Stephanie Cepak, press secretary for Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly, said the informal request came from the chamber with no formal details of the company’s name or its proposal. She said the request was related to Enterprise South, a jointly-owned property of the city and county.