Golden Gateway proposal revives hopes for successor to Chattanooga’s Kirkman high school

May 20, 2023 at 3:10 p.m.

by David Floyd

Contributed Rendering / A rendering by Heidi Hefferlin, of HK Architects, shows a potential state-of-the-art public school that Hamilton County leaders hope to place on the 11-acre Golden Gateway site owned by BlueCross BlueShield. The county intends to make an offer on the parcel.
Contributed Rendering / A rendering by Heidi Hefferlin, of HK Architects, shows a potential state-of-the-art public school that Hamilton County leaders hope to place on the 11-acre Golden Gateway site owned by BlueCross BlueShield. The county intends to make an offer on the parcel.


When Kirkman Technical High School closed in 1991, graduates, teachers and contemporaries agree, it left a void in the slate of local education options — one that some say has become more pronounced with time.

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