Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., slammed the current Chattanooga administration last week for not following through on a $108,000 fix to the Passage attraction on the downtown waterfront years before the city spent more than $1 million on renovations.
“There were offers by the subcontractors to solve these problems at no cost, and no one took it up,” Corker said during an editorial board meeting at the Chattanooga Times Free Press. “So here we are six years later, still with problems, because people don’t want to work with each other or don’t want to find a solution.”
Corker also said that, as far as he knew, everything at the waterfront that needed to be fixed was repaired under his administration. The waterfront project was Corker’s signature initiative when he served as Chattanooga mayor from 2001 to 2005.
“I can absolutely, categorically tell you that as mayor I knew of no problems that were unaddressed,” Corker said.
But Mayor Ron Littlefield’s spokesman said the fix proposed by contractor Hargreaves Associates Inc. in 2005 would have held the company harmless for any other problems occurring at the 21st Century Waterfront.