Mary Fortune

* Year established: 2016

Here's what to know about the Lookout Valley area.

At some point, as the businesses just kept proliferating, Ronald Ramsey and Chad Eichelberger started making a list.

Carlos Garcia likes to say yes, so when an acquaintance asked him six years ago whether he and his cleaning company crew could build out a fulfillment center in Chattanooga, he had his answer ready.

The value and tons of freight flow in the tri-state area.

Jamie Breneman founded his Chattanooga Exteriors construction business nine years ago, but he's been in the home renovation game since he was 8 years old.

SVN | Second Story Real Estate Management launched in 2016, under the leadership of Tiffanie Robinson and a team of investors and real estate professionals.

Jason Provonsha, the CEO of Steam Logistics, leads one of the fastest growing companies in Chattanooga.

Local logistics companies are hiring at fever pitch.

Their 12-and-a-half acre homestead in Villanow, Georgia, is the perfect place for Joe Hader's growing family, his home-based business, and his outdoor inclinations, but Hader wasn't always sure it would work out.

People across the country have been on the move as they look to reset their lives around work-from-anywhere possibilities and get closer to family.

A business that gathers workforce feedback to help employers attract and retain talent has raised $12 million to expand its offerings in a labor market where employees are in the driver's seat.

From the time she was a college student more than 30 years ago, Cheryl Saucier knew she wanted to spend her career supporting people with vision impairments in living active and fulfilling lives.

As shopping malls went up in sprawling, small-town suburbs, and downtown business districts grew quiet, the buildings sat empty for decades. The soaring ceilings and vast windows, the wide beams of timber, the heavy red brick walls gathered dust.

The nonprofit business booster CO.LAB is on the hunt for a new CEO for the second time since 2020.

In 1877, Joseph Lodge and his wife, Anna, made their home in South Pittsburg, Tennessee.

HomeSnacks combines recent data from the Census, FBI, OpenStreetMaps, and dozens of other sources into bite-sized studies to rate what it's like to live in different communities across the country. The 10 best Chattanooga suburbs, according to the site are:

Pam Ladd, the CEO of the Partnership for Families, Children and Adults, will retire in August after seven years with the non-profit human services agency. During her career, she served as manager of custodial services at Tennessee Valley Authority and as assistant vice president of support services at Provident Life and Accident Insurance Co. She then founded and operated Custom Custodial Inc., a successful industrial cleaning service. She also is a retired real estate agent with the local firm Real Estate Partners, and served as Chattanooga City Council representative for District 3.

As the first chief learning officer for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Damali Curry will help shape the education and development of employees from recruitment throughout their careers at the insurer - a job that will mean plenty of learning for her, as well.

Business owners who relied on Paycheck Protection Program funds to keep going during the pandemic say the forgivable federal loans carried them through the crisis, but the lessons of the last two years have changed the way they think about the future.