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Community Aspirations ACTIVATE the Riverfront Create a Place for ALL CHATTANOOGANS Develop a GREATER SENSE OF PLACE STRENGTHEN CONNECTIVITY to the Riverfront
ONE Riverfront Chattanooga is a community-driven plan to envision and develop a roadmap for the future of the Riverfront District. Since launching in 2020, over 2,000 community voices have shared their hopes and desires to reimagine, reposition, and reactivate the Riverfront for all Chattanoogans, outlined by Four Aspirations and Eight Strategies for implementation.
Strategies Humanize the Parks Come Together at the River Build Inclusively
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Create a Civic Campus Boldly Connect Downtown Refresh the Riverwalk Get Your Feet Wet
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Riverfront for all Chattanoogans
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Parks are for Everyone
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Parks Spur Development Parks Build Community
Welcome Chattanoogans to the riverfront and create a nucleus of energy that serves the social and cultural needs of the community and spurs locally owned business and entrepreneurship.
Protect the investment in the riverfront parks by allowing the spaces to evolve to meet community needs. Attract and extend visits to the Chattanooga riverfront by providing comfortable and interactive park spaces.
Play at the Tennessee River
City Sweat
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Rediscover Nature
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Play at the Tennessee
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Hi, Remember Me? Throw Launch Event at the Chattanooga Green, Amphitheater, and the ballpark parking lots.
Chattanooga is on the Map Develop a community based process for curating major riverfront events and creatively stage events.
There’s Always Something New at the Green Implement weekly programming at the Chattanooga Green and Aquarium plaza.
Riverfront Parkway Open Street Event RCC used community input from the One Chattanooga Riverfront process to identify a need for a greater diversity of events along the Riverfront. RCC is working with partners to host 80+ activations this summer, with more in the works! Additional potential events include...
Mound Play
Ross’s Landing Seating
City Sweat Kite Flying Community Skate Night Under The Bridge Dance Parties Gospel or Jazz on the Riverfront Indigenous People Performances History Tours Theatre in the Park
Rediscover Nature
Riverfront Parkway Mural
Broad Street Open Street
Build Inclusively Create enabling policy, tools, and partnerships for equitable development on River City Company/City-owned parcels.
Direct or indirect business subsidy: Grants or low-cost loans to business owners, master leased space with discounted or sliding-scale rent, longterm purchase agreements, low-cost vendor stalls
Business capacity support: Incubator program, business assistance program
Other developer subsidy: Low-cost financing, subsidy grants, TIF financing, tax abatements, anchor tenancy
Direct subsidy or equity participation: Free or discounted land, joint venture with delayed return
Workforce development: Job training programs, training grants, preferences for tenants that commit to local hiring
Establish the Riverfront Front Door The developments that engage the river are critical for chaining visits between the parks, trails, events, and businesses in the Riverfront District.
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Living Opportunities: Commit to mix of affordable and market rate housing as part of the redevelopment of RCCand City-owned parcels. Business Opportunities: Commit to providing low-cost commercial space to enable local and minority-owned businesses to locate in the Riverfront District.
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Success at the RCC- and City-owned parcels will provide a model for equitable development in the Riverfront District and greater Chattanooga community
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Signature Civic Commons
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Boldly Connect Downtown
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The Aquarium and surrounding campus is at the intersection of key corridors in the urban core of Chattanooga. The block encompassing the Aquarium buildings must be repositioned as a Civic Campus: multi-purpose, multi-generational, flexible, and inviting.
Water Feature Integrate education, local history, and the magic of water play in a safe and dynamic environment for children and families by day, and the calming romance of water by night.
Head of Broad Market Build on Farmer’s Market momentum to create temporary/seasonal market stalls and event days for the district complementing small/ local merchants.
The Broad Street public realm has generous width and tremendous opportunity to serve as a civic spine through the urban core of Chattanooga, providing a common area for community activity and a signature public street that serves and supports existing businesses and future redevelopment.
Broad Street R/W Allocation 120ft R/W Total
25% R/W Required for Vehicular Operation* (+/- 32 ft)
75% R/W Available for Signature Urban Street & Civic Commons* (+/- 88 ft) *at less than <10,000 vehicles per day
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Street trees Street trees
Lighting and wayfinding
Lighting and wayfinding
Pavilions and outdoor spaces
Signature Civic Commons Create an extension of the Broad Street public realm into the Civic Campus, linking the vibrant street life of the City’s premier urban corridor with the riverfront environment.
Cafe/Flex 9ft
Walk 9ft
Tree Lawn 6ft
Bike Lane 6ft
Tree Lawn 6ft
Parking 8ft
Travel Lane 11ft
Travel Lane 11ft
Parking 8ft
Tree Lawn 6ft
Bike Lane 6ft
Tree Lawn 6ft
Walk 9ft
Cafe/Flex 9ft
Sidewalk 10ft
Tree/ Parking 8ft
Travel Lane 11ft
Tree Lawn 4ft
Bike Lane 6ft
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Build-out and activate the remaining corner of Chattanooga Green, providing an experience that serves park, aquarium and district users, and provides return on underused, high-value real estate.
Provide an accessible connection and a powerful landscape statement that links the Riverwalk and Ross’s Landing with the Aquarium and surrounding District.
Create an accesscontrolled space for community and Tennessee Aquarium events, providing non-peak hour activity and additional revenue stream.
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The Riverwalk loses its legibility at either end of the Riverfront District, confusing users and hampering connections to the river and riverfront destinations
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Improved usability and legibility of the Riverwalk will better connect the Riverfront District to the river and the Riverfront District to surrounding neighborhoods
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A complete street approach to Riverfront Parkway from Georgia Avenue on ramp to Market Street Proposed Riverfront Route will calm traffic and provide a direct, separated path for the Riverwalk.
Refresh the Downtown reach of the Tennessee Riverwalk as part of Complete Street improvements to Riverfront Parkway from Georgia Ave. to Market St., incorporating the Riverwalk as a separated multi-use path.
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Strategy #8
Get Your Feet Wet
Floating Features
Kayak Access
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Strengthen access to and engagement with the Riverfront District’s primary asset - the Tennessee River.
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FOUR Aspirations
EIGHT Strategies
ONE
Riverfront for all Chattanoogans