Chick-fil-A Groundbreaking Slated for Jan. 22

The groundbreaking for the new Chick-fil-A restaurant in the Jordan Crossing development is scheduled for Monday, Jan. 22 at 10 a.m.

The event had been planned for Jan. 8 but was postponed apparently due to inclement weather.

The new 5,000-square-foot restaurant is at 639 Camp Jordan Parkway and will be the first restaurant in Jordan Crossing. The Chick-fil-A, owned by Heath Kyle, is expected to be open for business by spring and will offer seating for 120 guests. Plans are for additional patio seating for a dozen, as well as a playground for children.

When it opens, the location is expected to create about 85 new jobs.

According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the East Ridge Chick-fil-A is the second of six restaurants the popular chain expects to open in Tennessee in 2018.

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.