BACKGROUND

Glass Street is a two-lane commercial corridor with 1920s storefront architecture that runs through the heart of the historic Glass Farm neighborhood in East Chattanooga, Tennessee. During its rich past, Glass Street was the vibrant, bustling focal point of the surrounding community, with a theater, restaurants, and retailers lining the neighborhood main street.

The neighboring residential streets have wonderful views of adjacent Missionary Ridge, with a crest rising over five hundred feet above the community and adding to the already unique topography of the area. In addition to being near protected state and federal lands, the Glass Farm neighborhood is nestled between the Battery Heights, Avondale, and Boyce Station neighborhoods.

The intersectional role that Glass Street plays, combined with the adjacency of Glass Farm to surrounding neighborhoods, results in a recognizably larger community that defies a single neighborhood, zip code, or census tract classification. Once humming with manufacturing jobs, this broader nextring community has retained a small core of residents and businesses that have pride and ambitions for their often overlooked and underestimated area of town.