Basecamp: Summer Edition to Connect Locals with Career Opportunities in Sports, Tourism, and Public Programming
The Enterprise Center invites the public to Basecamp, a free day of networking, collaboration, and fun for professionals and job seekers on June 12 from 9 AM to 3 PM at the Chattanooga Choo Choo. Local residents are encouraged to view the full event details and RSVP on Eventbrite (https://Basecampsummer2025.eventbrite.com). The event includes informational panels […]
Q&A: Looking back on a year of service with Mateo Jimenez
Mateo Jimenez is a local student who served as a Lead for America American Connection Corps AmeriCorps Fellow with The Enterprise Center and Thrive Regional Partnership through the summer of 2023. He is a senior at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga majoring in Political Science with a minor in Sociology. As a Guatemalan-American, he […]
Social Determinants of Health & our 2023 Morehead-Cain Scholars’ summer study:
When four Morehead-Cain Scholars from UNC Chapel Hill first came to Chattanooga this summer, they were eager to explore the disparities in air quality across Southern communities. Particularly with the wildfire smoke that spread across the United States from Canadian blazes, the topic seemed incredibly timely for their 8-week program, hosted through a local partnership […]
Reclaiming Chattanooga’s Forgotten Alleys with Passageways
By Nikki Sneed Have you seen the amazing, decorative, interactive alleyways around Chattanooga? They’re not just pretty to look at, or take a photo with, they’re part of an architecture exhibit meant to exemplify the potential of often overlooked spaces in the city center. Passageways is basically an outdoor interactive art exhibit and was presented […]
ChattaNewbies
Nikki Sneed Moving to a new city can be overwhelming. There’s finding a place to live, packing your entire life into liquor store boxes and shoving those into the back of a moving truck that will probably get lost, saying goodbye to all of your friends and favorite places, finding a way to fit in […]
What is an Innovation District?
By Nikki Sneed Innovation districts have been profiled in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and online media from Business Insider to Demos Quarterly. But what are they exactly? In The Rise of Innovation Districts, the Brookings Institution defines innovation districts as “geographic areas where leading-edge anchor institutions and companies cluster and connect […]
The Tomorrow Building
Chattanooga is all about taking it to the next level. We did it with the Internet by being the first city to offer “the gig.” Now we’re doing it with co-living at The Tomorrow Building. With 39 fully-furnished micro-unit apartments, shared community spaces, and tons of engaging events, The Tomorrow Building is an up-scale, co-living […]
Covalence Coding School
With growth comes challenges. That’s true for everything, but especially true for the growing economy of an evolving city. One of the challenges faced by Chattanooga is actually a positive problem to have: According to data from the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce in 2016, there were more than 8,000 programming-related jobs listed over the past […]
Metro Ideas Project Tapped to Measure Impact of Chattanooga’s Innovation District
Nikki Sneed The Enterprise Center has engaged Metro Ideas Project, a Chattanooga-based research think tank focused on public policy, to evaluate and identify key performance indicators for Chattanooga’s Innovation District. Through an extensive research process, Metro Ideas Project will: Develop a set of reliable, valid, and clear metrics to measure the success and effects of […]
Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Publishes Case Study on Chattanooga’s Smart Grid Payback
Nikki Sneed A case study released by Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Business on Chattanooga’s gig and smart grid shows that the savings produced by the smart grid, plus revenue from access fees paid by the utility’s Internet access business, more than cover the capital and operating costs of the smart […]
