Chattanooga animal cancer center opening in South Broad District
A Chattanooga veterinary care group plans to open an animal cancer center this month that its officials say will offer cutting-edge therapy for the region.
Stories by Mike Pare
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Chattanooga developer building first Hyatt Studios hotel in US
A Chattanooga developer planning to start work early next year on the city's first Hyatt hotel is building another property under the chain's nameplate in Alab…
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More than 75,000 vehicles pass by this Chattanooga building daily, broker says. It can be yours for $6.6 million
A building at a high-profile intersection in Chattanooga that formerly served as a bank branch is on the market.
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Upgrading technology and expanding partnerships at INCubator eyed as ‘game-changer’ for Chattanooga’s entrepreneurial ecosystem
Redeveloping and expanding the Hamilton County Business Development Center is seen as a potential game-changer for economic development in the region, accordin…
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Downtown Chattanooga’s Mountain City Club site may hold department store, event space, hotel
Mountain City Club officials agreed Wednesday to potentially finalize a sale of its longtime downtown Chattanooga site, with the buyer planning a department st…
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Subscriber Exclusive84-room, four-level hotel proposed for Chattanooga on busy Highway 153 corridor
The landowner of a high-profile tract in Hixson on Highway 153 is eyeing the site to potentially hold a hotel as companies continue to seek out new locations a…
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Volkswagen Chattanooga workers get 11% pay raise
Volkswagen is providing an 11% pay raise for production workers at the automaker's Chattanooga assembly plant, the company announced Wednesday.
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Black Friday shopping expected to break record as new Chattanooga stores drive local traffic
Shelia Wyatt said Tuesday at Hamilton Place mall in Chattanooga that she hadn't worked on her holiday shopping list yet but may start this Black Friday weekend…
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Nokian Tyres sustainability cited in Dayton, Tennessee, plant
Tire manufacturer Nokian Tyres on Tuesday became a member of the Tennessee Green Star Partnership, an environmental leadership program recognizing the state's …
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Chattanooga Airport to study ‘leakage’ to other cities in effort to woo more air service
Chattanooga Airport plans to fund a study that will estimate how many travelers from the area are going to other cities to fly with the hope of using the data …
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2 new restaurants slated for site near Northgate Mall in Chattanooga
A Mediterranean fast-casual restaurant is one of a pair of new eateries planned for a tract near Northgate Mall as the area around the Hixson shopping center c…
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Planners nearing Chattanooga Lookouts stadium ‘guaranteed price’
Planners for the proposed Chattanooga Lookouts ballpark said Thursday they're moving closer to arriving at a guaranteed maximum price tag for the South Broad D…
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Chattanooga Airport lands nonstop flights to Las Vegas
Chattanooga Airport has landed new nonstop roundtrip flights to Las Vegas on discount airline Allegiant Air, with service to start May 16, according to the car…
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Chattanooga-area Wacker plant helping fill semiconductor pipeline
Wacker's sprawling production plant near Chattanooga has pivoted to providing more polysilicon for semiconductor use than for solar panels, a top executive at …
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$55 million assisted living facility planned for Chattanooga’s East Brainerd area
A new assisted living and memory care operation appears headed to Chattanooga as a company has won approval from a city planning board for a proposed $55 milli…
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$100 million project OK’d by planners for new homes, shops in Ooltewah
A Hamilton County panel Monday endorsed what's pegged as a more than $100 million residential and commercial project in Ooltewah over opposition from a couple …
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CBD store opens with elixir bar on North Shore as former Chattanoogan returns to city
A North Carolina man with roots in Chattanooga is bringing his hemp plant-based cannabidiol, or CBD, dispensary concept from Asheville to the Scenic City with …
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Volkswagen Chattanooga training exercise set for Sunday
Volkswagen Chattanooga and local first responders will conduct an active shooter exercise at the plant from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, according to the automaker.
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Subscriber ExclusiveChattanooga Bank Building to hold $59 million Hilton hotel
A new buyer for a nearly century-old downtown Chattanooga tower has plans to restart a long-stalled hotel project with work slated to begin in a few weeks, off…
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Homelessness, housing, development key issues in downtown Chattanooga, citizens say
Homelessness, housing and the quality and location of new development were among issues raised by people who took part in a meeting Wednesday about the future …
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Chattanooga's younger population expands as planners seek to handle growth
The fastest-growing age group in Chattanooga last decade wasn't boomers but the 25- to 34-year-olds, planners said, raising questions about whether the city sh…
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Chattanooga area restaurant owner’s ventures climbing to six
A Chattanooga restaurant and bar owner Monday unveiled plans for a couple of new eateries as he received a pair of $10,000 small business grants from the city.
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Novonix redirects $100 million to existing Chattanooga plant, eyes DOE loan for future facility
Battery materials maker Novonix plans to redirect a $100 million federal grant to boost production at its existing Chattanooga plant at the former Alstom site …
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Subscriber ExclusiveMore trucks in Chattanooga’s freight future, experts say
The Chattanooga area's standing as freight alley may accelerate as companies shift their supply chains east to avoid logjams at West Coast ports, experts said.…
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Subscriber ExclusiveFood City site near downtown Chattanooga eyed for more retail, multifamily housing
A development group is making plans for a sizable tract just outside downtown Chattanooga that now holds a longtime supermarket and parking lot that could offe…
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Appalachian Regional Commission chief touts ‘broadband highway’ while in Chattanooga area
The Appalachian Regional Commission's co-chair said Wednesday that broadband now is what the interstate highway system was to the 1960s in terms of trying to r…
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In the market for a green office? Chattanooga’s first LEED certified building is on the market for $2.95 million
What was originally a downtown Chattanooga hotel that was renovated into an office building, and which bills itself as the city's first structure to become Lea…
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Chattanooga-based Unum’s quarterly profits rise on premium growth
Insurer Unum Group on Tuesday posted higher profits in the third quarter over a year ago, citing positive underlying trends and a favorable environment highlig…
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Subscriber ExclusiveFriend of former Chattanooga investor Woods accused in Ponzi scheme by feds
An Atlanta area man described as a friend of John J. Woods, the former Chattanooga businessman who has pleaded guilty to a wire fraud charge related to a Ponzi…
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Colonial Chemical cooking up employee pipeline amid effort to find trained workers
A Colonial Chemical Co. official said graduating the first apprentices of a new training initiative is a milestone in the growth of the company that expects to…
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Chattanooga Airport boardings up 11% as restart of New York nonstops sought
Chattanooga Airport passenger traffic is up nearly 11% so far this year, and officials said they're intent on restoring service to pre-pandemic levels, includi…
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West Star Aviation creates training academy amid worker demand in Chattanooga, other sites
West Star Aviation, which has a major aircraft maintenance operation at the Chattanooga Airport, is creating a companywide training academy to meet a demand fo…
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Mountain City Club to weigh offer to buy downtown Chattanooga property
A potential buyer has emerged for the longtime home of the Mountain City Club in downtown Chattanooga, according to an email from the club's president.
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FreightWaves' Fuller buys recreational boating magazines, moving headquarters to Chattanooga
A Chattanooga businessman is adding to his media holdings with the purchase of what he termed the largest collection of recreational marine brands in the natio…
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United Airlines targeted for nonstops between Chattanooga and Denver with $1.12 million in incentives
The Chattanooga Airport is targeting United Airlines as officials woo nonstops to Denver, and they plan to offer $1.12 million in federal and local incentive m…
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Hydraulic leak, other factors contributed to FedEx crash at Chattanooga Airport
The largest aircraft ever to crash land at Chattanooga Airport when its landing gear wouldn't operate earlier this month was plagued by a leaky hydraulic hose …
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Unum insuring record 45 million customers in 2023; gives Austin Hatcher Foundation $175,000
Chattanooga-based insurer Unum expects to protect a record number of customers in 2023, with the figure around 45 million, said company Chief Executive Rick Mc…
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Buehler’s Market building for sale for $2.1 million after eatery falls through
The site of the former Buehler's Market, which operated for 105 years in Chattanooga before shutting down in 2017, is for sale after a plan for a sports-themed…
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Startups and large companies ‘speed date’ in Chattanooga about logistics
Speed dating for companies.
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Walden caps size of town center commercial space
Walden officials, by a 2 to 1 vote, on Tuesday called for capping the size of commercial buildings in a possible future town center at 15,000 square feet, or a…
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Ooltewah-area subdivision OK’d despite traffic concerns
New single-family housing appears headed to the Ooltewah area after a planning group approved the rezoning of a tract where a developer is proposing 39 homes, …
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Subscriber ExclusiveHotel company eyes Kimball location as it builds in downtown Chattanooga
A Chattanooga company is planning a new hotel in Southeast Tennessee and adding still more lodging to its area portfolio even as it's building an Embassy Suite…
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Wacker plant in Bradley County weighing conditions for expansion
Wacker's chief executive in America said its Bradley County plant is hiring to fill from 20 to 40 jobs, though it's still evaluating market conditions for a la…
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Volkswagen EV sales up 74% in U.S. amid strength of Chattanooga-made ID.4
Volkswagen's group sales of electric vehicles worldwide surged for the year through September, with the United States racking up a 74% jump over 2022 on the st…
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Malone’s restaurant site work starts at Hamilton Place mall in Chattanooga
Early site work has started on a parcel next to Hamilton Place mall where a Malone's restaurant is slated to go and add to the shopping center's growing menu o…
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Chattanooga’s Sportsbarn selling East Brainerd site to group also planning downtown center
Sportsbarn has agreed to sell one of its two remaining fitness centers in Chattanooga to a local group that plans to upgrade the facility and rebrand it as wel…
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Subscriber Exclusive130 townhomes approved for Hixson despite neighbor concerns
A proposal for 130 townhouses on a vacant Hixson tract that bumps against another parcel where about 50 new single-family homes could go up has won the approva…
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TV station worries about blackouts caused by Chattanooga Lookouts stadium projects
WDEF News 12 Now officials said Monday they're worried that possible 12-story buildings on the old foundry site slated to also hold the Chattanooga Lookouts ne…
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Used car prices soar 50% in Chattanooga, study says
A new study shows used car prices, driven by the lingering effects of the pandemic, have soared nationally and in Chattanooga.
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Cargo plane that crash landed at Chattanooga Airport towed away from runway
A cargo plane that crash landed at Chattanooga Airport this week, skidding down the main runway amid a flurry of sparks before stopping on a grassy area, was t…
