Chattanooga’s trendy West Village is growing with the refurbishing of the former Mountain City Club, plans for another high-end hotel and the remake of an under-used building into nearly four dozen apartments.
The aim is to help complete the vision of the West Village, said Byron DeFoor, who with brother, Ken, re-imagined what was a dreary part of downtown a decade ago into a destination for tourists, conventioneers and locals.
So far, hundreds of million of dollars have been invested into the West Village, which will again serve as the nucleus for the Chattanooga Motorcar Festival slated for Oct. 11-13, according to the DeFoor brothers.
The sale of 729 Chestnut St., which was long the home of the Mountain City Club, to the DeFoors earlier this year led to the renovation and repurposing of the site now called the West Village Terrace.
The new event space holds about 350 people, Byron DeFoor said in an interview.