The McLemore Hotel is slated to set atop Lookout Mountain and above McLemore Cove in Walker County, Ga. (Contributed rendering)The name is changing, but the dream of building an eye-popping mountaintop resort remains in what could be Walker County, Ga.’s biggest-ever single investment.
The 800 acres atop Lookout Mountain, formerly known as Canyon Ridge, has been recast as McLemore, according to development group Scenic Land Co.
Developers said a new vision has emerged to build a luxury 180-room resort hotel and conference center as part of a more than $100 million planned community on the site about a half hour from Chattanooga.
Scenic Land has completed its acquisition of the parcel that looks over a V-shaped site known as McLemore Cove. Nationally recognized firm Hart Howerton has been hired as master planner for the project.
“This place has had some dark days,” said Duane Horton, president of Chattanooga-based Scenic Land, referring to troubles which have hit the Walker County project over more than two decades. “However, we never gave up faith for what it could become.”