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TNECD has allocated nearly $9 million to renovate and preserve Tennessee's historic buildings through the Historic Development Grants program.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Several locations across Tennessee are getting grants to preserve history.

The Tivoli Theatre Foundation and a new hotel being planned for the former Chattanooga Bank Building are both receiving $300,000 grants from the Tennessee Historic Development program, state Department of Economic and Community Development officials announced Thursday.

Before 1910, Alcoa was a tiny Blount County town known as North Maryville. Then the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) came to the area and gave it a new name.

Alcoa is bringing more land into its city limits after planning commissioners in their last meeting of 2020 voted to annex about 25 acres off Pellissippi Parkway. The request by James Prigmore Jr. and Topside Venture General Partnership not only scored approval for annexation but also for temporary rezoning assignment as developers decide what to do with the land. Located on either side of Jimmy Hugh Thompson Drive and behind the 2024 Topside Road Weigel’s, the annexation included two roads connected to the properties, commission notes state. The unanimous Dec. 17 votes — four total...