Chick-fil-A Coming to Jordan Crossing

If you live in East Ridge and love Chick-fil-A, you won’t be having to drive to Brainerd Road much longer to enjoy one of your favorite meals.

East Ridge is getting a Chick-fil-A restaurant.

Though it has yet to be officially announced, the Chick-fil-A will be built on Camp Jordan Parkway across from the Bass Pro Shops in the Jordan Crossing development. The restaurant proper will sit on property where the America’s Best Inn was formerly situated. The parking lot for the new restaurant, officials said, will be on a small parcel of land that the city deeded to the developers in February of this year.

Blueprints for the new Chick-fil-A have been submitted to the city and building permits have been issued, officials said Tuesday.

An official announcement by the developers, company officials and the city is anticipated in coming days.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.