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Southside Chattanooga hotel wins approval twice as 92-room boutique lodging planned

Staff photo by Mike Pare / The corner of East Main Street and Mitchell Avenue, shown Monday, is to hold a new boutique hotel. A 123-year-old building was ordered torn down at the site, even though the hotel developer had sought to include it into the new lodging's design, officials said.
Staff photo by Mike Pare / The corner of East Main Street and Mitchell Avenue, shown Monday, is to hold a new boutique hotel. A 123-year-old building was ordered torn down at the site, even though the hotel developer had sought to include it into the new lodging's design, officials said.

By Mike Pare 4 min read

A proposal for a new hotel on Chattanooga’s Southside has won city approval to move ahead a second time after an earlier plan to include an old building at the site was changed after the structure was ordered torn down.

A 92-room, five-level boutique hotel at East Main Street and Mitchell Avenue is slated to start going up next year with an opening in 2025, said developer Stephen Wendell of Charleston, South Carolina-based Mountain Shore Properties.

The proposed hotel is one of several going up or planned downtown as the central city is seeing a surge of new lodging.

The boutique hotel could end up with fewer rooms, depending on what the development group does with the top floor, Wendell said in an interview after a recent meeting of the city’s Form Based Code Committee.

The panel approved variances for the project, though it struggled with several aspects of the planned new lodging amid some stiff neighborhood opposition.