East Brained News Today

Tazikis Mediterranean Café — which has Southeast Tennessee restaurants in downtown Chattanooga, East Brainerd and Cleveland — is expanding next month by adding another local eatery at the Shoppes at Hamill complex in Hixson.

Heres a look at the business trends for November in the Chattanooga area. Those trends include the opening of an Oregon-based coffee outlet and the endorsement of a more than $100 million residential project in Ooltewah.

When Bassam Issa bought more than 53 acres at the southwest corner of East Brainerd and Ooltewah Ringgold roads in 2014, the Chattanooga developer said he knew the site would be ideal for a supermarket like Publix.

A Miami firm has purchased an East Brainerd retail center anchored by Office Depot for $6.1 million and is looking for other possible acquisitions in what investors see as an attractive Tennessee market.

Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits has opened a new location in East Brainerd as the first of three restaurants opening this year on a stretch of Gunbarrel Road near Hamilton Place mall.

In 2020, MGT Consulting Group presented a facilities master plan which included recommendations on what to do with each school in the district after assessing them.