Fleetwood Building ready for business tenants, apartment dwellers

They have rebuilt it. Now the long-vacant Fleetwood Coffee building in downtown Chattanooga is ready for apartment-dwellers and businesses to come.

Renovation work is done on the five-story, more than 100-year-old, brick-and-wood building at 11th and King streets that – until the 1970s – was home to a coffee roasting company.

Tenants already have moved into about half of the studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments that take up the top three floors.

“The demographic is probably mid-20s to mid-30s. It’s young people who want to live downtown. Most of them work downtown,” said the man who oversaw the building’s renovation, Gerald McCormick, a real estate broker for Stone Fort Properties and the Republican majority leader in the Tennessee State House of Representatives.