Attorneys Gerald Webb II, left, and Bill Speek take a look inside the building that formerly was the location of businesses such as mini-golf and the Home Plate restaurant at Seventh and Cherry streets. The site is being remodeled for new law offices for the firm of Speek, Webb, Turner and Newkirk.
The building that formerly was the location of businesses such as mini-golf and the Home Plate restaurant at Seventh and Cherry streets is being remodeled for new law offices that will include attorney’s Gerald Webb II, left, and Bill Speek, right. Matt McGauley, center, came to the site Monday with architectural plans on an electronic pad.An expanding Chattanooga law firm is betting on the city’s central business district as it readies to shift into new space in a 1930s era building.
While Chattanooga’s riverfront and Southside have blossomed over past decade or so, development in the city’s core has lagged. But the firm, Speek Webb Turner & Newkirk PLLC, plans to shift into the renovated 6,000-square-foot structure at Cherry and Seventh streets around the first of the year.
“This is one part of the city where we’d like to see more and more focus on,” said attorney Bill Speek as he laid out his vision for the new law offices.
The firm currently leases an office about a block south on Cherry, though it has added a new partner, plans to more than double the number of lawyers to nine and it needs the added room, said another partner, Gerald Webb II.
He cited the new office’s closeness to the Hamilton County Courthouse as well as the Courts Building, which sits on the same block.