Ellen Gerst
Reporter at Chattanooga Times Free Press
local @TimesFreePress, recovering Californian. (she/her) [email protected]
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3 days ago |
timesfreepress.com | Ellen Gerst
A developer withdrew his proposal to add 1,600 housing units at a large development off Tunnel Boulevard on Monday after months of meetings with neighbors concerned about the project. Developer Michael Kenner told planning commissioners he wished to withdraw a rezoning case that would have made his vision for the project, which included some affordable housing, possible. Commissioners voted to allow the case to be withdrawn.
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4 days ago |
timesfreepress.com | Ellen Gerst
Feds cuts funding for Chattanooga’s Alton Park trail 3 minutes ago by Ellen Gerst Staff Photo by Robin Rudd / On Jan. 23, 2025, a portion of the Alton Park connector trail, built by the developers of Borough 33 Apartments, ends near Broad Street. The federal government has canceled a $20 million grant to complete the trail.
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6 days ago |
timesfreepress.com | Ellen Gerst
5 Hamilton County construction projects on Monday’s agenda 5 minutes ago by Ellen Gerst Staff photo by Matt Hamilton / Michael Kenner speaks April 9, 2025, at the Eastdale Community Center during a community meeting about his proposed Tunnel Boulevard development.
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6 days ago |
timesfreepress.com | Ellen Gerst
Five days a week, Sidney McDonald boards a bus that delivers him, electric wheelchair and all, from his doorstep to his job at City Hall. That trip, on Chattanooga's Care-a-Van service, costs him $2.50 each way. Then there's the trip home, or to his second job as a ticket taker at a downtown movie theater. "I got a social life, too, so," McDonald said in an interview.
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1 week ago |
timesfreepress.com | Ellen Gerst
Cooper's Alley, Glass Street, a BlueCross Healthy Place park and an old freight depot turned into an accounting office. All are places in Chattanooga that have been made and utilized well, at least according to four Chattanoogans who gathered Tuesday night to talk during an event hosted by the United Way of Greater Chattanooga about how the city's built environment — including streets, parks and housing — affects how its people live, work and interact.
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