When Andy Stone looks over the old foundry tract in Chattanooga’s South Broad District — part of which will transform into the new Lookouts stadium — he sees the Dynamo of Dixie.
“This is what built Chattanooga,” Stone says about the 140-acre tract where foundries had flourished for more than 100 years and helped give the city its manufacturing stature and one-time nickname.
Stone, a partner in the group that owns the old U.S. Pipe/Wheland Foundry parcel between Broad Street and Interstate 24, and others see the $115 million ballpark leveraging upwards of $1 billion in new investment in that part of the city.
Stadiums have long been seen in Chattanooga and Hamilton County as tools to try to revive neighborhoods and attract new wealth.
Photo by Matt Hamilton/ Andy Stone talks last month about construction plans at the site of the new Lookouts stadium.CHI MEMORIAL STADIUM