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Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
Tax credits will aid real estate industry, agents say
President Barack Obama signed into law Friday a bill that includes new tax credits for homeowners in an attempt to stimulate the economy.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
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Farley's & Sathers shuffles some jobs
Candy maker Farley's & Sathers is shuffling jobs, bringing new work to Chattanooga but shipping some local manufacturing to other sites.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Tax credit program involves Lupton
NASHVILLE — State officials Thursday selected six venture capital firms, including one with Chattanooga ties, that will split $120 million in tax credits intended to spark investment in new Tennessee companies.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Moll Systems to install VW conveyors
Moll Systems, a German company that will install auto conveyors for Volkswagen's new assembly plant, has leased space in the Ooltewah area where it will employ up to 50 people.
Posted: Thursday - Nov. 5, 2009
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Majestic ready to say 'action'
Downtown Chattanooga's Bijou theater will give way Friday to the Majestic 12 when the newer, bigger moviehouse opens next door.
Posted: Thursday - Nov. 5, 2009
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CBL seeks capital via joint ventures
CBL & Associates Properties Inc. officials said Wednesday they're seeing interest from equity funds, foreign investors and others seeking to joint venture wi
Posted: Wednesday - Nov. 4, 2009
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Filmmakers capture VW’s move here
Volkswagen’s return to making cars in the United States and Chattanooga’s role in that move has become the stuff of moviemakers.
Posted: Wednesday - Nov. 4, 2009
CBL earnings jump in third quarter
CBL & Associates Properties Inc. reported third-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ estimates amid encouraging sales, traffic and occupancy trends.
Posted: Tuesday - Nov. 3, 2009
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VW starts installing equipment at paint shop
Volkswagen's paint shop will produce cars that may be red, blue and black. But workers installing the facility's first equipment Monday are thinking green.
Posted: Monday - Nov. 2, 2009
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Chattanooga: VW paint shop hits key mark
Calling it a key milestone, Volkswagen officials today started installing the first equipment in the auto assembly plant’s paint shop.
Posted: Saturday - Oct. 31, 2009
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VW chief offers details on supplier park
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant chief said Friday that the planned supplier park near the VW plant is expected to have about eight to 10 suppliers at first and be ready next summer.
Posted: Friday - Oct. 30, 2009
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Auto execs warm hands around VW
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- The economy's rebound likely will lag, but Volkswagen is creating growth opportunities for the region, economic development officials said Thursday.
Posted: Wednesday - Oct. 28, 2009
Chattanooga: VW unveils new sketch of planned car
Volkswagen officials today unveiled a new sketch of the mid-size sedan that will be made at the auto maker’s Chattanooga assembly plant.
Posted: Wednesday - Oct. 28, 2009
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VW training site to open in December
Volkswagen's Training Academy, a building that's seen as key to a successful production startup, is slated for a mid-December finish, officials said Tuesday.
Posted: Wednesday - Oct. 28, 2009
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Tightening of capacity seen helping Covenant
Covenant Transportation Group's chief executive said Tuesday the company should break even or make a profit late this year or early in 2010.
Posted: Tuesday - Oct. 27, 2009
VW training site set for December finish
Work is slated to finish in mid-December on Volkswagen’s $40 million training center as 160 people man two shifts on the building, officials said today.
Posted: Tuesday - Oct. 27, 2009
5,000 apply online for VW jobs
Joe Benton, of Chattanooga, said he'd been unemployed for six months and really wants one of the production jobs for which Volkswagen started taking applications Monday.
Posted: Monday - Oct. 26, 2009
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Over 5,000 file for VW jobs
More than 5,000 people had filed online for Volkswagen production jobs by mid-afternoon today after the automaker started taking applications for the slots, an official said.
Posted: Saturday - Oct. 24, 2009
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VW Worker search begins Monday
When Volkswagen opens up hiring Monday for its 1,200 production jobs at its Chattanooga plant, the effort will be watched closely both inside and outside the company.
Posted: Saturday - Oct. 24, 2009
Chattanooga airport seeing traffic, revenue growth
Despite fighting the headwinds of a slow economy, Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport’s first-quarter boardings and revenue are up.
Posted: Saturday - Oct. 24, 2009
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Allegiant captures Chattanooga market share
Randy Ellis was flying on Allegiant Air from Chattanooga to Orlando on Friday to see his daughter and said a cheap ticket was his reason for picking the airline.
Posted: Sunday - Oct. 18, 2009
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Lovemans' latest facelift
The last undeveloped part of the historic Lovemans building is undergoing a facelift as plans call to turn the structure’s second floor into office or residential condominiums.
Posted: Friday - Oct. 16, 2009
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Next phase in hiring
Volkswagen officials are bracing for several tens of thousands of applications as the company starts taking online inquiries Oct. 26 for production jobs at its Chattanooga plant.
Posted: Friday - Oct. 16, 2009
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IBM economist: Spinoffs will boost city
The Chattanooga area is expected to gain from not just the Volkswagen auto plant but spinoff businesses and jobs as well, IBM's chief economist said here Thursday.
Posted: Wednesday - Oct. 14, 2009
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Construction keeps pace north of river
A new $2 million Riverview Animal Hospital is going up in North Chattanooga as that area continues to show building activity even amid the sluggish economy.
Posted: Saturday - Oct. 10, 2009
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Espin gets Y-12 license for dry wipes
Chattanooga nanofiber company eSpin has received a license from Y-12 National Security Complex to make special wipes used at Department of Energy nuclear energy facilities.
Posted: Friday - Oct. 9, 2009
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City lags others in airline promptness
Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport trails Tennessee's other major airports in on-time flight arrivals, though it's just slightly below the national average, a study shows.
Posted: Thursday - Oct. 8, 2009
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Train boosters eye pile of cash that could power planning
Bullet train supporters said Tuesday they aim to garner over $21 million to power high-speed train planning on the Atlanta-Chattanooga corridor.
Posted: Wednesday - Oct. 7, 2009
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VW suppliers gather
About 100 Volkswagen suppliers from across the world met in Chattanooga on Tuesday as their officials were briefed on doing business with the automaker.
Posted: Wednesday - Oct. 7, 2009
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Parking lot, VW center win OKs
Two projects to move construction of the Volkswagen assembly plant ahead, including the paving of its 40-acre parking lot, received approval Tuesday.
Posted: Tuesday - Oct. 6, 2009
VW training center equipment, parking lot OK’ed
The purchase of $7.6 million in state-of-the-art equipment that Volkswagen will use to train workers to build cars in its Chattanooga auto assembly plant was approved by a city panel today.
Posted: Tuesday - Oct. 6, 2009
Madem plans to add shift, up to 30 workers
Wooden reel maker Madem plans to add a second shift soon and bring on up to 30 more jobs in Chattanooga.
Posted: Tuesday - Oct. 6, 2009
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City to see VW dealers in 2010
Chattanooga is expected to co-host Volkswagen's 577-strong U.S. dealer network in 2010 as the group brings its national convention to Tennessee.
Posted: Monday - Oct. 5, 2009
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Platform for VW growth
Top Volkswagen officials on Sunday lauded the progress on VW's Chattanooga auto assembly plant, which soon will hold more 2,000 workers building the huge facility.
Posted: Sunday - Oct. 4, 2009
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VW director says new Chattanooga plant ‘backbone’ of success in U.S.
A Volkswagen board member said in Chattanooga today that the new auto assembly plant the German automaker is building at Enterprise South industrial park will be “the backbone of our success in the United States.”
Posted: Saturday - Oct. 3, 2009
VW execs, governor to walk plant site
When top Volkswagen officials visiting Chattanooga on Sunday view the building of its first American plant in decades, they may be thinking about Toyota.
Posted: Friday - Oct. 2, 2009
Top VW officials, governor in Chattanooga Sunday
Top Volkswagen officials and Gov. Phil Bredesen on Sunday will check out progress at the automaker’s plant under construction in Chattanooga.
Posted: Friday - Oct. 2, 2009
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New car sales plunge
Used vehicles titled in Hamilton County held level in September from a month earlier, but new car and truck registrations fell sharply after cash for clunkers ended.
Posted: Friday - Oct. 2, 2009
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Cult following will miss Saturn brand
Kristin Dziczek says she owns a Saturn that was made at General Motors' Spring Hill, Tenn., plant, and she'll be sorry to see the brand go.
Posted: Thursday - Oct. 1, 2009
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VW, Chatt State develop training link
Linking business and education in a way not seen before in the city, Chattanooga State is powering up its work with Volkswagen as the college readies to manage the automaker's $40 million training center.
Posted: Thursday - Oct. 1, 2009
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Local shares take wing
Riding the upward wave of the overall markets, shares of most Chattanooga-area companies rose in the third quarter.
Posted: Wednesday - Sept. 30, 2009
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Firehall work at VW to start
A fire station serving the Volkswagen auto assembly plant and the growing area around it will start going up Thursday.
Posted: Tuesday - Sept. 29, 2009
Chattanooga: Fire station work to start near VW plant
Work is to start this week on the first of two new fire stations slated to go up at Enterprise South industrial park near the Volkswagen plant, officials said today.
Posted: Tuesday - Sept. 29, 2009
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Crowne project moving ahead
Demolition to turn the inside of the old Chattanooga Bank & Trust Building into a Crowne Plaza hotel and new condominiums could start in about a week, a consultant said Monday.
Posted: Sunday - Sept. 27, 2009
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BlueCross building wellness
Andy Jacobs, a 45-year-old technical systems analyst for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, said he was overweight, sedentary and worried little about what he ate.
Posted: Friday - Sept. 25, 2009
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Cars emerging at VW to get test drives
Volkswagen is planning two tracks at its Chattanooga plant site to check the quality of the vehicles that roll off the assembly line, an official said Thursday.
Posted: Thursday - Sept. 24, 2009
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Averitt Air to base taxi jet in city
Air taxi operator Averitt Air has started jet service from Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport as it seeks to capture the business executive market.
Posted: Wednesday - Sept. 23, 2009
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Regional approach, better schools urged
Climbing out of the worst recession in decades, Chattanooga can gain from regionalism, better public education and a loosening in the financial markets,
Posted: Wednesday - Sept. 23, 2009
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Planners cite Bonny Oaks congestion
Bonny Oaks Drive is expected to be the most congested artery near Enterprise South industrial park after the Volkswagen auto plant opens, a study by traffic planners indicates.
Posted: Tuesday - Sept. 22, 2009
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Rain stops work on road to VW plant
Heavy rains are hindering work around Volkswagen's auto assembly plant, though there was no flooding at the factory site, officials said Monday.
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