A plan for a new Chattanooga Lookouts stadium on blighted foundry land won the OK of a Hamilton County panel Thursday, including creation of a 450-acre special tax district around the facility.
County Mayor Jim Coppinger said after a 5-to-1 vote by the county’s Industrial Development Board that he expects a resolution on the nearly $80 million project to come before the County Commission next week with a formal vote a week later.
“It’s something we’ve been working on for decades,” he said about redeveloping the 120-acre U.S. Pipe/Wheland Foundry site between Broad Street and Interstate 24.
But development board member Steve Slater, who cast the only “no” vote, said he has talked to hundreds of people in his district, which includes Soddy-Daisy and Sale Creek.
“Not one person is for this,” he said during the meeting.