Chattanooga $350M Retail District Planned at The Bend
What Is The Bend’s $350M Chattanooga District? At its core, The Bend’s $350 million Chattanooga district is a planned mixed-use retail and residential development inside the larger 120-acre Bend riverfront redevelopment west of downtown, on the former industrial Alstom site. It is framed as a downtown expansion, not a single-use shopping center. Urban Story Ventures manages the broader Bend redevelopment, while Hill Partners serves as the district’s commercial real estate partner. The project is expected to generate more than 1,000 jobs, underscoring its economic impact . Site Scale And Redevelopment Pressure The district is tied to a 28-acre purchase-and-sale agreement within a former industrial brownfield along the Tennessee River. That context makes environmental remediation a defining part of the site’s transformation into mixed-use urban land. Similar large-scale projects increasingly emphasize sustainable infrastructure to balance redevelopment goals with environmental concerns....