The 2018 South Broad District Study was clear in its intent about the importance of The Howard School in the study’s “vision for revitalization.”
“Efforts to revitalize the South Broad District should strive to be inclusive of the Howard School Campus including the leveraging of new uses in the District and increases in population for the betterment of the school,” the study said. It further said, “As changes occur on the Howard Campus, create a more campus-like setting that is integrated with Market Street and [East] 25th Street.”
Six years later, as a new Chattanooga Lookouts stadium is on the verge of being approved as the catalyst of a revitalized South Broad District, Howard had been nearly forgotten.
As Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp and his team worked with Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly and his team over the last few weeks to hammer out a final deal, he wanted to be sure the county’s largest school, its only downtown high school and by all rights a historic community school benefited.