Chattanooga ConferenceCenter

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Chattanooga Conference Center –

When it opened in early 2001, the $43 million, 212,000-square-foot Chattanooga Conference Center included 27,000 square feet of meeting/conference space, 9,600 square feet of restaurant and dining spaces, a four-story tower with 200 guest rooms, a fitness center complete with an indoor pool and a parking garage for 1,000 vehicles. The meeting areas will include five conference rooms equipped with front and rear video screens, a 125-seat sloped amphitheater and a 22-seat board room. It will be one of the finest facilities of its kind in the country. The sophisticated teleconferencing equipment, to be managed by Chattanooga State staff members and students, will provide numerous opportunities for users of the Center. Local physicians can visit to watch via satellite a noted surgeon from another country perform a new procedure and then ask him questions about it. Or a fast-food restaurant can bring employees in to learn from a live demonstration in Los Angeles on the operation of a new cash register. Everything will be made convenient and suitable to conferences - from breakout spaces to permanent beverage and snack stations. Much of the work on the facility is being completed locally. Franklin Associates Architects and River Street Architecture are two of the key planning firms involved, while a joint venture between T.U. Parks Construction and Beers is the contractor. The brick, cast concrete and steel building has been designed to reflect the city's rich industrial and railroad heritage; and it will be landscaped to conform to its surroundings.

Links:

> Chattanooga Conference Center

> River City on the Chattanoogan

Architect:

Franklin Associates
140 N. Market Street
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37405
(423) 266-1207

Rabun, Hogan, Ota and Rasche Architects
44 Broad Street Northwest
Atlanta, GA 30303
(404) 522-9455