The goal at the end of the day is that we'd like to see job creation there.
The Chattanooga Housing Authority sold the Harriet Tubman Homes site to the city of Chattanooga for $2.6 million in cash.The future use of the former Harriet Tubman public housing site in Chattanooga has received a boost from a state grant that will help ready the vacant 36-acre tract.
The $100,000 grant, if matched by city money, will carry out infrastructure planning work on the property, said Charita Allen, the city’s deputy administrator for economic development.
“This is the next phase in bringing something to the site,” she said.
The grant will fund activities ranging from conducting a wetland study to an archaeological review to mass grading to make the parcel “pad ready.”