Chattanooga's EPB plans nearly $65 million power grid, storage upgrade
Chattanooga's electricity grid will undergo nearly $65 million of upgrades over the next five years to reduce both the number and duration of power outages for…
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Hamilton County seeks $5 million state grant, site certification for developing McDonald Farm
Nearly two years after buying the McDonald Farm north of Sale Creek for future industrial and business growth, Hamilton County commissioners will consider a gr…
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Chattanooga's Finley Stadium seeks funds for lighting, elevator improvements
Chattanooga and Hamilton County governments are being asked to provide $600,000 apiece to make improvements in the elevators and lighting at Finley Stadium.
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Miami investment firm buys East Brainerd retail center for $6.1 million
A Miami firm has purchased an East Brainerd retail center anchored by Office Depot for $6.1 million and is looking for other possible acquisitions in what inve…
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Northgate Mall looks for redevelopment as another store shuts down
Growing up in Chattanooga, Kenneth Ware has been shopping at Northgate Mall all his life and recalls when the Hixson shopping center was the biggest retail dra…
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Who are the richest people in Tennessee?
After losing a collective $500 billion last year, the nation's 400 wealthiest people have gained it all back, according to Forbes magazine.
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TVA plans power shift in Kentucky as study recommends solar farm for Shawnee coal ash area
A half century ago, the Tennessee Valley Authority generated most of its power from underground mines. Now, the utility is looking up as it considers plans to …
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Chattanooga Seafood closing in Red Bank
Less than two years after opening one of Red Bank's first fresh seafood outlets, Chattanooga Seafood is shutting down.
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Subscriber ExclusiveRegions Bank to close 3 branches and open new office in Hixson
Regions Bank plans to consolidate three of its Hixson branch offices into a new office and drive-through facility scheduled to open in January on Highway 153.
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Business leaders expect Tennessee economy to outperform the US
Nearly half of Tennessee business leaders said they think the U.S. economy will worsen over the next year, but most think the chances of a recession are lower …
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Songbirds guitar museum to relocate from the Choo Choo to West Main Street venue
The Songbirds Guitar & Pop Culture Museum is saying goodbye to Station Street after nearly eight years at the Chattanooga Choo Choo and will move next year to …
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Last month was the driest September in Chattanooga since 1919
Last month was the driest September in Chattanooga in more than a century, and October is starting without any immediate prospects of precipitation this week, …
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VA buys site in Meigs County to expand Chattanooga National Cemetery
As the 160-year-old Chattanooga National Military Cemetery nears capacity, another military cemetery will be built about 30 miles to the northeast on the Tenne…
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Chattanooga gas prices drop nearly 12 cents a gallon
Gas prices in Chattanooga declined for the third consecutive week last week to the lowest level in nearly three months, and prices at the pump should decline e…
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TVA brings back rebates for energy efficiency
Chattanooga businesses, residents and home builders can once again receive rebates from their electricity provider for investments made to cut power usage with…
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Meet 10 of the latest hirings and promotions in the Chattanooga business community
Thalia Cruz has joined Waterhouse Public Relations as an account executive. A native of Cleveland, Tennessee, Cruz is a graduate of Lee University where she wa…
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Subscriber ExclusiveCroft & Frost: Investors worry that hydrogen plant investments pushed by Chattanooga accountant have gone up in smoke
Pat Hilton is a Dallas-based emcee, businessman and social media professional.
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Bank deposits drop in Chattanooga in the past year
Bank deposits in Chattanooga dropped by a record $475.4 million in the past year as many pandemic relief programs ended while business and consumer spending co…
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Henderson heads First Horizon in Ringgold
First Horizon Bank has named Jennifer Henderson as manager of its banking center in Ringgold, Georgia.
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Southern Adventist names new business school building for Ruth McKee
COLLEGEDALE, Tennessee — With a record number of freshmen enrolled this fall, Southern Adventist University broke ground Friday on a new academic building for …
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TVA raises rates Sunday but lower fuel costs keep electricity prices below year-ago levels
The Tennessee Valley Authority is raising its wholesale rates for the first time in four years Sunday, but power costs will still be lower for Chattanooga elec…
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Subscriber ExclusiveChattanooga-area officials prepare for possible government shutdown
As the federal government struggles to agree on a yearly budget and heads toward a government shutdown, federal offices and parks around Chattanooga face possi…
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EPB touts new software to ease use of quantum network as Chattanooga vies to become testing bed for new technologies
After announcing America's first commercially available quantum network at the Quantum World Congress a year ago, EPB leaders from Chattanooga returned to the …
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Baltimore Aircoil buys Coil Design to continue growth of Dayton, Tennessee, plant
When Paul Guariglia learned about the closing of Goodman's air conditioning plant here in 2016, the New Jersey businessman saw an opportunity to use the coil m…
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Subscriber ExclusiveNorth River Commerce Center takes shape as Chattanooga’s biggest new industrial park in decades
Chattanooga's biggest industrial park built in the past two decades will soon open for business in Hixson on the site of what was once the city's biggest manuf…
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Chattanooga Hardwood Center to close after 30 years of operation
Chattanooga Hardwood Center is shutting down this week after supplying lumber to local woodworkers, cabinet makers and artisans for the past 30 years.
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eDynamic Learning acquires Chattanooga-based Learning Blade
An online learning tool launched in Chattanooga to help introduce more middle school students to careers in the science, math and technology fields has been ac…
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Chattanooga named the best place to retire in new study by Southern Living magazine
Chattanooga has been rated as the best place to retire in a comparison of 41 top-rated cities across the South in a new analysis by Southern Living and Investo…
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Four former Mohawk managers indicted on fraud charges
Four former employees of Mohawk Industries Inc. have been indicted for allegedly defrauding the world's biggest floorcovering manufacturer by using a consultin…
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Unemployment in Chattanooga drops to near record low in August
Unemployment in the Chattanooga area declined in August to near-record lows, but the drop in the local jobless rate last month was due primarily to a decrease …
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Apprenticeships at Jasper, Tennessee, manufacturer help fill talent pipeline, provide better paying jobs
Michael "Seth" Davis said he didn't have any specific career plans when he was at Whitwell High School, but when he heard about a welding apprenticeship progra…
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Gov. Lee touts economic gains in rural Tennessee
When Bill Lee was considering whether to run for governor eight years ago, the Franklin, Tennessee, businessman and part-time cattle farmer decided to tour the…
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Chattanooga highlights economic development to state leaders
Nearly 700 of Tennessee's top business recruiters and development leaders are gathered in Chattanooga this week for the first time for the annual Governor's Co…
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Panda Express relocates to new and bigger site to add drive-through service in East Brainerd
When Ramon Bavista started working for Panda Express in East Brainerd nine years ago at age 20, he thought it would only be a temporary job for six months or s…
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Subscriber ExclusiveFrost seeks buyer for downtown Chattanooga office
After suddenly shutting down his accounting firm last week, Chattanooga businessman Jonathan D. Frost has put the office building where Croft & Frost operated …
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Bailey joins BrightBridge Capital and other Chattanooga-area career moves
Sarah Bailey has joined BrightBridge Capital as a credit underwriter.
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Subscriber ExclusiveChattanooga accounting firm lays off entire staff, locks doors
The Chattanooga accounting firm Croft & Frost abruptly laid off all of its employees Tuesday after struggling for months to meet payroll.
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Tennessee unemployment rate stays at record low level in August
Unemployment stayed at a record low level last month across Tennessee as employers in the Volunteer State continued to add jobs over the past year despite high…
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Subscriber ExclusiveTVA considering sites in Jackson County, Alabama, for energy storage, backup power production
The Tennessee Valley Authority is turning to the sun for much of its future power with plans over the next two decades to buy or build solar farms capable of p…
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Hamilton County planners reject one self-storage facility in Hixson but approve expanding another on Highway 58
Hamilton County planners are recommending against a zoning change to allow another self-storage business to open in Hixson, but they are endorsing a proposal t…
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Memphis City Council member nominated to replace TVA Chair Bill Kilbride
A Memphis City Council member who is a retired supervisor for Memphis, Light, Gas and Water has been nominated to replace Chattanoogan Bill Kilbride on the Ten…
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Hamilton County planners OK permit for private airfield, residential development in Hixson
A private airstrip in Hixson that largely shut down more than two years ago could take flight again as a fly-in residential community offering a mix of new hou…
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Business to make their pitches to ‘Gathering of Angels’ in Chattanooga
For the past 26 years, Talbert C. "Tarby" Bryant Jr. has sought to bring investors looking for high-growth business opportunities together with entrepreneurs s…
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Burlington to relocate Hixson store
The off-price retailer Burlington plans to relocate its Hixson store this fall, moving into a smaller storefront that was vacated earlier this year with the li…
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Subscriber ExclusiveChattanooga Lookouts stadium site developer sees home run potential on Southside site
When the new Chattanooga Lookouts stadium opens on the former Wheland Foundry site in two years, the master developer for the project hopes to offer far more t…
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Subscriber ExclusiveGeorgia, Tennessee lead in electric vehicle investments, jobs
A year after the adoption of the Inflation Reduction Act designed to spur clean energy investments, Tennessee, Georgia and the Carolinas all rank in the top 10…
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Parkridge buys 38 acres of prime property in Ooltewah, partners with Erlanger to develop outpatient facility
Two of Chattanooga's biggest hospitals are teaming up to develop an outpatient surgery center in the growing Ooltewah area to help shift more patients from inp…
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Five Star expands into Southwest Tennessee with purchase of another Canteen franchise
In its third acquisition of another Tennessee Canteen franchise so far this year, the Chattanooga-based Five Star Food Service has purchased Southern Vending I…
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Apartment complex purchase biggest residential property sale in Hamilton County history
One of Hamilton County's biggest apartment complexes has a new name, owner and manager less than a year after its opening.
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Most obese states concentrated in the Southeast
The top U.S. states with the highest share of the population considered obese are concentrated in the Southeast.
