I was a guest on WGOW the other day with Jim Reynolds and Bill Lockhart (regular host Jeff Styles was recovering from a broken leg, in case you haven’t heard, and yes there was a skateboard involved).
We spent a good deal of time trying to look into the future of Chattanooga’s entertainment scene in 10 or 20 years. No one knows for sure, but it is easy to see the current level of momentum and predict that things will certainly be different.
Things have already changed. For most of my adult life, and even during the renaissance begun by the Tennessee Aquarium, things moved at a relatively even, and sometimes slow pace.
Things like Nightfall took awhile to take hold, and we’ve had plenty of citywide events, restaurants, bars, etc. come and go over the last three decades. Not so much in the last five or six years.
Even with the economic slowdown, we’ve seen a lot of growth, and the big thing is we’ve become a destination for people who want things to do at night. Entertainment for adults, which is different than adult entertainment, by the way.