Lynnbrook Park groundbreaking held

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) – A groundbreaking ceremony for a new park was held this morning in the Oak Grove neighborhood off East Main Street.

Chattanooga Parks and Outdoors broke ground on the future Lynnbrook Park.

The one point four acre park will stretch along Lynnbrook Avenue from East Main Street to 17th Street.

In addition to building the park, a major focus of the construction will be to restore a water drainage system, as the Oak Grove neighborhood has experienced flooding issues.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the new Lynnbrook Park.

Maria Price, the Assistant Stormwater Engineer at Chattanooga Public Works said, “We’re taking a few hundred feet of an urban stream and naturalizing it. We’re removing all of the manmade elements to make this a natural stream again. To help people reconnect to nature without all of the hard elements that you see in an urban stream.”

Akosua Cook, a park planner at Chattanooga Parks and Outdoors said, “It is already city-owned, and it was just sitting here as it was turning into a junkyard. We were just storing old equipment on it. We wanted to bring it into a functional use that will one beautify and connect this community.”

Lynnbrook Park will provide access to approximately 3-thousand people within a ten minute walk.

It will also soon connect to a future Greenway.

The park is scheduled to be completed by August 2024.