Chattanoogans among first in Tennessee to earn construction workforce credential
Lewis Jones said he was always keen on the construction industry and especially the uses of concrete.

Lewis Jones said he was always keen on the construction industry and especially the uses of concrete.

A Japanese maker of specialty chemicals, and one of the first companies to land at Centre South Riverport more than three decades ago, has ceased production with the 22.7-acre site up for sale, officials said.

Hamilton County planners and some people who live near a proposed 199-home East Brainerd subdivision clashed with the developer, who also aims to build new commercial space at the site.

One of the largest-ever residential projects proposed for the Highway 153 area in Hixson won approval from planners Monday, though work may shave off the top of a hill on the 167-acre tract.

Brent Morgan calls it "a jewel box" sitting in the newly rebuilt Integrity Mazda dealership in Chattanooga.

The Center for Sports Medicine & Orthopaedics is proposing a two-story building next to one of the area's biggest outpatient ambulatory surgery facilities, which it opened last year as it takes a campus approach to the East Brainerd site.

New Chattanooga condominiums priced up to nearly $1 million each are going into a century-old former textile mill building a few blocks off East Main Street.

Downtown Chattanooga's urban scene is the location of a mixed-use building that's on the market.

Volkswagen Chattanooga, closing in on almost 15 years of production this Labor Day, is assembling nearly 1,000 SUVs a day at the plant that's "fast approaching maximum capacity," an official said.

Work on the planned new Chattanooga Lookouts ballpark hit a key milestone Thursday with a guaranteed construction price OK'd for the stadium, and officials said they've set up a camera at the site so the public can view its progress.
