ChattaNew Year

The Double Tree hotel is hosting the countdown and block party.

They’ve done a New Year’s Eve party for several years, but wanted to do something more this year and hopefully create a Chattanooga event for years to come.

Director of Sales & Marketing Peter Guarneiri says, "Actually came up with this brilliant Coca-Cola rising to New Years. So, it’s looking forward to 2015, and how great things are going, looking up for 2015 as a community and as a city as a whole."

A sold out party will be going on inside the hotel, but they’re also having a free block party outside, making a kind of Chattanooga Times Square.

It will be a family friendly atmosphere with music, food vendors, free Mayfield ice cream and the EPB Kids Zone.

It will close down Chestnut Street from 4th to 6th Street.

Also the Carta buses will continue to run til 12:30 to help with parking.

Activities will begin at 8 p.m., and the light show after 11 and leading up to the countdown to the Coca-Cola rising at midnight.