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A 14-month timetable for new Chattanooga Lookouts stadium ‘ambitious but doable’

City of Chattanooga rendering / Chattanooga Lookouts officials are hoping renderings for a new stadium can start becoming realities in a matter of days.
City of Chattanooga rendering / Chattanooga Lookouts officials are hoping renderings for a new stadium can start becoming realities in a matter of days. City of Chattanooga rendering / Chattanooga Lookouts officials are hoping renderings for a new stadium can start becoming realities in a matter of days.

By David Paschall 5 min read

The Chattanooga Lookouts are ready to play ball.

Sure, the 2024 baseball season doesn’t start until early April when the storied Class AA franchise travels to Birmingham for its Southern League opener, but it’s almost game time on the new stadium front. The Chattanooga City Council is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the updated financing plan for the $120 million venue at the 120-acre Wheland Foundry/U.S. Pipe site, with the Hamilton County Commission set to vote Wednesday.

Should the plan be approved, Lookouts president Rich Mozingo believes the shovels will be right around the corner.

“Permits are waiting on us at the city right this minute just to be picked up,” Mozingo said late last week. “We are ready to go. We’ve got the excavator crew. It is ready to go. The demolition crew is ready to go, so it is realistic that the 19th of February is a real date when something could happen. We are that prepared to go.

“Is it going to happen on the 19th? Maybe not, but the 20th, 21st or 22nd? By the end of that week, I think it’s super realistic that could be happening.”