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Chattanooga Lookouts stadium site picked on old foundry land

Contributed Rendering / New renderings of the new Chattanooga Lookouts Stadium were unveiled at a meeting of the Chattanooga Sports Authority, at the Chattanooga City Hall, on April 13, 2023.
Contributed Rendering / New renderings of the new Chattanooga Lookouts Stadium were unveiled at a meeting of the Chattanooga Sports Authority, at the Chattanooga City Hall, on April 13, 2023. Contributed Rendering / New renderings of the new Chattanooga Lookouts Stadium were unveiled at a meeting of the Chattanooga Sports Authority, at the Chattanooga City Hall, on April 13, 2023.

By Mike Pare 4 min read

Developers of the planned Chattanooga Lookouts stadium have chosen its footprint on the old U.S. Pipe/Wheland Foundry site, picking a location to maximize the reuse of its historic buildings in the design, officials said Thursday.

“They will make it different than any other minor league stadium,” said Jim Irwin, president of Atlanta-based New City Properties and the master developer of the 120-acre tract, about mixing the buildings into the ballpark’s site between where West 26th and West 28th streets intersect the parcel.

Irwin said at a meeting of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Sports Authority that some of the 5,000 to 6,000 permanent seats will be incorporated into one of the existing foundry structures on the first baseline.

 

Also, he said, the multiuse ballpark in the South Broad District will be situated so game-day patrons will have their backs to the late afternoon sun and solve a key complaint about the current AT&T Field on downtown’s waterfront.