{"id":360346,"date":"2025-12-20T17:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/360346\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T17:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:38:10","slug":"chattanooga-officials-explore-converting-old-golf-course-into-a-community-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/360346\/","title":{"rendered":"Chattanooga officials explore converting old golf course into a community park"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. \u2014 The city of Chattanooga is looking to turn an old golf course into a new park.<\/p>\n

Something neighbors told us they would welcome over the development of apartments.<\/p>\n

The Quarry Golf Course has been closed since 2007. Since then there has been significant debate over what should be done with the land.<\/p>\n

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Image: NewsChannel 9 SkyView<\/p>\n

In 2021, Chattanooga city council dismissed a proposal to build apartment buildings there.<\/p>\n

“What we’re wanting, more than anything, is for us to be left as natural as possible and let people enjoy this,” resident Kevin Murphy says.<\/p>\n

Now, the City of Chattanooga is doing research on if part of the property on the golf course will work well as a park.<\/p>\n

Some neighborhoods tell us they are excited about this idea.<\/p>\n

“To have it turned into a park would be phenomenal for us. I mean, that would be a real big win,” Monica Davenport says.<\/p>\n

Initially, the land was potentially considered for development.<\/p>\n

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Image: NewsChannel 9 SkyView<\/p>\n

Ellis Smith, Chattanooga’s Director of Intergovernmental and External Affairs, tells us…<\/p>\n

“Builders proposed to put houses on space that folks have been sort of enjoying as a green space, so there was a lot of consternation.”<\/p>\n

Something many neighbors did not want.<\/p>\n

“Real serious. We don’t want any development here. Stop it.”<\/p>\n

Now, the city hopes the land will help the community, if the purchase goes through.<\/p>\n

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Image: NewsChannel 9 SkyView<\/p>\n

“We’re also optimistic that, should this go forward, that this will be a great asset for the community for years to come,” Smith says.<\/p>\n

The state of Tennessee granted Chattanooga with $1.7 million for this potential purchase, which was approved at the City Council on Tuesday<\/p>\n

“So there’s not a contract. This is merely a letter of intent. I know there’s been a lot of talk about it. Every time that the city considers a new park or new green space, it’s very exciting, and it should be,” Smith says.<\/p>\n

Chattanooga city council voted this week to accept grant money for the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. \u2014 The city of Chattanooga is looking to turn an old golf course into a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-360346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}