Buoyed by record revenues last year, Chattanooga's $1.5 billion-a-year tourism industry is looking at expanding the city's biggest convention facility by building onto or even replacing the trade center in downtown Chattanooga.
Company will reduce Chattanooga workforce over next four months
Unemployment in the Chattanooga area edged higher in January due to the normal seasonal drop in retail and other holiday-related hirings, but the new year began with the lowest jobless rate in Chattanooga in more than two decades.
America's biggest public utility would create more than 15,000 additional jobs while improving public health if it moved more quickly to carbon-free energy and phased out fossil fuels as an energy source by 2035, according to a new study.
In the next couple of years, one of the largest properties in downtown Chattanooga is scheduled to open up for redevelopment after the Chattanooga Lookouts minor league baseball team relocates its stadium to the Southside.
More than a half century after Chattanooga was labeled the dirtiest city in America for its industrial and vehicle emissions, Mayor Tim Kelly has rolled out a vision to clean up the air and water and become a carbon-neutral community by 2050.
One of Bradley County's biggest manufacturing plants, which shut down last summer after 43 years of operation, is being reopened by another over-the-counter pharmaceutical manufacturer seeking to expand its production.
After declining by more than 30 cents a gallon during February, gasoline prices in Chattanooga reversed their downward trend and rose by an average of 7.3 cents a gallon over the past week, according to the online gasoline pricing service GasBuddy.com.
Federal and state leaders are pushing plans to build a new type of nuclear reactor here that they claim could provide a clean source of power and an economic development tool for Tennessee.
With help from the city, county and Uncle Sam, the Chattanooga Housing Authority is looking to redevelop its oldest and biggest housing project and surrounding areas with nearly $1 billion of mixed-use housing and support facilities over the next decade.
