New Hotel Planned at Jordan Crossing

The Vision Hospitality Group, Inc. announced on Monday plans to build an 88-room Hampton Inn in East Ridge.

The hotel is part of the 50-acre Jordan Crossing development located at Exit 1 on Interstate 75 where Bass Pro Shops opened this summer.

“We truly feel that Hampton Inn is one of the best brands available today,” Mitch Patel, president and CEO of Vision Hospitality said in a statement. “We value the partnership we have with Hilton to develop premium hotels in growing markets.”

The hotel at Jordan Crossing is one of five that Vision Hospitality is developing in the Chattanooga area.

The hotel’s anticipated opening is in 2018, officials said.

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.