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Rental homes in East Brainerd to help meet growing demand in Chattanooga area

Staff file photo by Robin Rudd / Homebuilding is continuing in the Chattanooga area, including at the Rock Bridge subdivision off Wooten Road in Graysville, Ga., though these homes are for sale and unrelated to the Hamilton Villas project.
Staff file photo by Robin Rudd / Homebuilding is continuing in the Chattanooga area, including at the Rock Bridge subdivision off Wooten Road in Graysville, Ga., though these homes are for sale and unrelated to the Hamilton Villas project. Staff file photo by Robin Rudd / Homebuilding is continuing in the Chattanooga area, including at the Rock Bridge subdivision off Wooten Road in Graysville, Ga., though these homes are for sale and unrelated to the Hamilton Villas project.

Chattanooga developers are moving forward with 128 garden patio homes in East Brainerd which will be available for rent in a $16 million project.

Hamilton Villas will go up near Igou Gap and Morris Hill roads starting in early 2021 as the project tries to meet the needs of renters in the area, said Marcus Lyons of Lyons Group Inc.

“America is evolving into a nation of renters, and their taste in product type is changing,” said Lyons about the project.

Lyons, who is developing Hamilton Villas with Nerren and Win Pratt of Pratt Home Builders, said figures show there are home shortages across the Southeast.

“The single-family rental product is a faster way to make homes more accessible to the consumers,” he said.