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Maryanne Cunningham of Chattanooga’s Ochs Center. Entrepreneurship in theatre – and for veterans – at UTC. The door opens to “No Exit” at Back Alley Productions.

Sixty years ago, what became the Ochs Center was founded here in Chattanooga. In 2015, the urban research nonprofit closed its doors - but its story did not end there. Today, the Center has refocused its mission with a new funding model.

For Broad Street in downtown Chattanooga, the shape of what’s to come is starting to take shape. Last week, an urban design firm heard from community members on the future of Broad Street - from the Tennessee Aquarium to Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard - at a reimagining workshop at the Aquarium.

More than twenty-five years ago, Greg Vital and Franklin Farrow founded what is now Morning Pointe Senior Living. Today, the company provides assisted living, personal care and Alzheimer’s memory care at 37 locations in five states - including here in Chattanooga and the Tennessee Valley.

CNE’s Martina Guilfoil on the affordable housing crisis. green|spaces hosts a regenerative design summit. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

How should we design and construct the sustainable buildings of tomorrow? You’ll find the shape of things to come next week at the Regenerative Design Summit here in Chattanooga.

Here in Chattanooga and Hamilton County, the affordable housing crisis hits homeowners, homebuyers and renters all at once. How we arrived here began before the pandemic and soaring inflation - and any solutions that will help, whether in the pipeline or proposals for consideration, will take time to make an impact.

What’s next for the proposed redevelopment of the South Broad District in Chattanooga - the old U.S. Pipe / Wheland Foundry site between Broad St. and I-24 - and the plans for a new stadium for the Chattanooga Lookouts? David Floyd is local government reporter for The Chattanooga Times Free Press.

Mike Bradshaw - director of the Urban Vision Initiative here at UTC - is the first entrepreneur-in-residence on our campus, and the interim director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, all part of the Gary W. Rollins College of Business.

The area boom in freestanding emergency departments. “Waters Rising,” a mini-opera from inside prison walls. A celebration on the way to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”