Averitt Air expands in Chattanooga
Posted on September 24, 2009 at 10:06 am
The Nashville-based charter operator and maintenance firm has launched a jet taxi service from Chattanooga’s Lovell Field. Among the drivers for the service, which had served Chattanooga from Nashville: Volkswagen’s decision to build a manufacturing plant in the city.
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Cosmetic Market heads down 24
Posted on September 14, 2009 at 6:43 am
Linda Roberts’ five-year-old Cosmetic Market venture is preparing to open its fourth location — and first outside the Nashville area — in a renovated Chattanooga warehouse.
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Local contractor sues over VW bidding process
Posted on September 8, 2009 at 9:52 am
D.F. Chase and an Illinois company have sued various groups involved in the awarding of several construction contracts at Volkswagen’s rising Chattanooga campus.
SEE ALSO: D.F. Chase’s two contract wins in Chattanooga
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More REO woe for GreenBank
Posted on August 20, 2009 at 6:33 amGreen Bankshares has acquired a 675-home high-end development near Chattanooga in a forelcosure sale. GreenBank, which has struggled mightily with bad loans this year, had financed the project.
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VW expects 100,000 applications
Posted on August 13, 2009 at 11:36 am
The auto maker’s Chattanooga HR chief says his team is building a system to handle 100,000 job applications for the less than 2,000 it expects to begin bringing on early next year.
SEE ALSO: VW of America boss Stefan Jacoby talks to The Detroit News about VW’s plans, including how it will fix a brand that “got a little bit lost.”
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ECD pub honors locals
Posted on July 22, 2009 at 1:58 pmSouthern Business & Development Magazine has named Chattanooga’s snagging of Volkswagen its 2008 economic development deal of the year, Tennessee the co-state of the year and has nice things to say about the Governor and two of his lieutenants.
Separately, the magazine’s readers have voted Arant Boult Cummings one of the region’s top ECD law firms. Nashville-based Tom Trent leads the firm’s ECD practice group.
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Nashvillians land some more VW work
Posted on July 1, 2009 at 12:45 amThe La Vergne operation of Schneider Electric will handle the electrical work on the heating and cooling building at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant. The firm bid $3.6 million for the job.
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VW supplier bringing 200+ jobs to Chattanooga
Posted on June 25, 2009 at 9:07 amThe U.S. arm of Spain’s Gestamp will invest $90 million in a stamping operation at the Enterprise South Industrial Park. Within three years, the company will employ 230 people at the site near Volkswagen’s plant.
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Add 38% to VW’s plans
Posted on May 15, 2009 at 7:01 amThe apparently opportunistic German auto maker says it has expanded the plans for its Chattanooga factory to 2.4 million square feet, 13 percent larger than their previous version. That will expand the company’s production capacity to 900 vehicles a day, almost 40 percent more than initial projections.
“This is great timing,” Frank Fischer, who will run the plant, said yesterday in an interview at the site as he prepared for the project’s wall-raising ceremony. “Construction prices are down and the availability of resources is immense.”
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The first wall
Posted on May 10, 2009 at 10:38 pmVolkswagen’s Chattanooga project hits a milestone:
On Thursday, Mr. Ramsey will join Volkswagen’s top executives, Gov. Phil Bredesen and other officials to watch the first wall of Volkswagen’s $1 billion assembly plant rise from what once was a U.S. Army ammunition plant.
The German automaker is racing ahead with construction of its only U.S. assembly plant despite the worst recession in decades and amid one of the biggest fall-offs in new auto sales. But VW executives and others believe the economy will turn around by the time the plant opens in early 2011, and pent-up demand for new vehicles will accelerate sales.
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Contractor lands more VW work
Posted on April 28, 2009 at 3:16 pm
A week after securing the job to build an energy plant at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga complex, D.F. Chase also is the low bidder on a section of the company’s training center.
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Journo joins VW
Posted on April 27, 2009 at 10:43 pmApril Wortham, a Nashville-based writer who has been stationed in Nashville for Automotive News, will head up Volkswagen’s community relations in the Chattanooga area.
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Could VW hurt BNA?
Posted on April 24, 2009 at 6:20 am
A sidebar to a Site Selection magazine story on Wacker Chemie’s choice of Bradley County for a polysilicon plant mulls the possibility of a regional airport for the Chattanooga area.
“I can’t see any reason they wouldn’t support that,” says Ross Tarver, chairman of the Cleveland/Bradley Industrial Development Board. “Given the level of visibility of the Tri-cities — Chattanooga, Cleveland and Dalton [Ga.]. There’s a little hub right there, and it’s gaining a lot of attention.”
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D.F. Chase nabs VW deal
Posted on April 21, 2009 at 2:03 pmWith the work to build Volkswagen’s Chattanooga factory hitting high gear, D.F. Chase wins a $3.3 million contract to build an energy plant at the complex. The firm was the lowest of 11 bidders.
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Tennessee keeps in-migration higher than out
Posted on April 3, 2009 at 8:35 amFrom Randy Neal:
A Relocation.com study found that more people are moving to Tennessee than moving out (58% v. 42% of interstate moves respectively). Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga had a net increase in the number of people moving to those cities.
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