The proposal was new. The questions were not.
Last week, a group of nearly 100 people showed up at a public meeting in which attorney John Anderson laid out a case for a 49,000-square-foot grocery store at Taft Highway and Timesville Road.
One of the landowners behind the proposed new grocery, Anderson held the meeting to field Signal Mountain residents’ worries about the store’s size and need.
Anderson, who practices law in Chattanooga and lives in Walden, said between $22 million and $32 million in food sales consumed on the mountain are currently bought off the mountain each year.
The potential total retail “leakage,” including items such as pharmacy sales, pet food and alcohol, is more than $101 million annually, he said.