A new four-story apartment building has opened at the entrance of the Mill Town housing complex in Chattanooga as the first of several multifamily structures slated to offer about 150 units.
Called The Poplin, the building housing the 24 two-bedroom, two-bath apartments is at East Main and Watkins streets and will provide market-rate housing, Todd Womack, a member of its development group, said by phone Wednesday.
Womack said the units, leasing from $1,600 to $2,100 a month, signal the initial round of apartment construction planned for nearby tracts.
On one end of the new building, Chattanooga artist Nathan Brown is painting a large, colorful mural aimed at helping mark the sprawling Mill Town development on the site of the former Standard-Coosa-Thatcher textile plant.
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