A five-story, 90-room upscale boutique hotel is planned for downtown Chattanooga near the Walnut Street Bridge.A five-story, 90-room upscale boutique hotel is planned for downtown Chattanooga near the Walnut Street Bridge, and the proposal is drawing more support than a similar project two years ago.
Chattanooga-based Vision Hospitality Group wants to put the hotel at Walnut Street and Aquarium Way at the south end of the bridge in the city’s art district. That’s near the new Walnut Commons apartment complex and the Museum Bluffs condominiums.
“Our vision is to develop a high-end hotel that will become a destination,” said Mitch Patel, Vision Hospitality’s chief executive, in a statement. “By providing an experience that focuses on all of the senses and provides the highest standards of service, we believe our hotel can become a destination that will be an asset to the entire community.”
Plans also include a two-level parking garage for the hotel that Vision would like to open in 2016.
The company will seek to rezone the nearly 1-acre site from R-4 to C-3. A building that in the past has served as a dentist’s office now sits on the high-profile location and will be torn down.