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For more than 20 years, Chattanooga’s population has been growing faster than the national average – but we probably don’t have to tell you that. Just look around (or open the paper)! It seems that every day we have a new major development to tell you about.

Yesterday, it was the $4 million McCallie Avenue makeover. Today, it’s the $21 million proposed St. Elmo project, which architects are calling “transformational.”

In related news, a $2 million grocery store has been planned for Dodson Avenue, a neighborhood now considered a “food desert.”

And, finally, in unrelated news, nobody’s perfect, including the “Game of Thrones” prop people. Last Sunday, eagle-eyed viewers spotted something very out-of-place during a celebration in which the actors drank from goblets and horns.