The location of a new Chattanooga Lookouts stadium on old foundry land may be picked soon, officials said Thursday, which will help them decide if historic buildings on the site make it into the ballpark’s design.
Lookouts Chief Executive Jason Freier said at a meeting of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Sports Authority that he’d like to include some of the old existing foundry structures into the stadium itself.
“It would be amazing, unique,” he said in an interview about the design of the planned $79.4 million facility in the South Broad District. “The big question is where the stadium will fit.”
Attorney Mark Mamantov of the firm Bass, Berry & Sims told the sports authority that the donation of land for the stadium on the 120-acre former U.S. Pipe/Wheland Foundry site is a key issue on which officials are working with landowner Perimeter Properties. Officials have said the donation is expected to be about 10 acres.
“We need a real site, a legal description,” he said. That will enable survey work, soil drilling and the location to be platted, Mamantov said.