Who Lives Here?
Highland Park has an eclectic mix of homes and residents - this is
what makes it one of the city's finest places to live. For many
residents, who more than a few times have been known to sell one home in
Highland Park just to move over to that beautiful restoration - one
street over - that they've had their eye on, it's the only one of
Chattanooga's neighborhoods that they would ever consider.
College students and first-time homeowners
have found both the spacious Queen Anne's and the cozy bungalows perfect
to share with roommates, loved ones, and friends.
The growing popularity of downtown Chattanooga has spread from the North
Shore and the waterfront to MLK, the South Side, and Highland Park, and
for young professionals hoping to live and work within minutes of their
favorite restaurants, UTC, and other downtown amenities, Highland Park
can't be beat. Students, artists, and entrepreneurs alike are glad to
call Highland Park home, because of its perfect location (just minutes
from UTC) and because it's one of the best neighborhoods to enjoy
relaxing conversations on a front porch or for night owls, around a
glowing fire-pit in the comfort of a big backyard.
Lovers of historic homes
helped begin Highland Park's revitalization,
one-hundred years after the first houses were built here. Now the
incredible opportunities to live in elegance, amid hand-crafted rarities
like oak trim,
heart
pine floors, carved and tiled fireplaces, and chandeliers hung from
eleven-foot ceilings, continue to draw both restoration experts and
keen-eyed connosseuirs of original details. Of the approximately 800
homes that span our 96 blocks, almost no two are the same, so not only
will you be sure to live in a unique piece of Chattanooga's history, you
are guaranteed to fill many an evening walk exclaiming, "I never noticed
that before!" about any number of the homes on our peaceful streets.
Parents appreciate that Highland
Park is a short distance from some of the best schools in the area for
both primary and secondary education. The University of Chattanooga,
currently in the process of multiple expansions, including the addition
of a forty-eight million dollar library, is right down Bailey Avenue.
The famous McCallie
School is just a mile away, down our northern border of the same
name. The Battle Academy, one of Chattanooga's most successful magnet
schools, is less than a mile and a half away on Main Street.
Child-friendly and family-oriented, Highland Park is a neighborhood
where families of all ages live for the same reasons its original
inhabitants moved here in 1900 - the peacefulness of its wide streets
and many shaded, low-maintenance yards; its proximity to downtown
locations for both work and play; the feeling you get sitting with your
neighbors on a front porch, long after the sun has disappeared - the
recognition that you are part of a living, growing community.
Civic
engagement made Highland Park what it is today, and
few neighborhoods in Chattanooga have as many committed individuals as
you will find in our up-and-coming area. From min
or
issues like trash clean up to forming strong relationships with city
officials, Highland Park residents rank at the top of the list.
When people think about the incredible turnaround Chattanooga has had,
evolving from an industrial city and commerce hub to "one of the best
cities in the world" according to US News and Weekly World Report, they
often think that the turnaround is over - but you can be a part of
something special that is happening right now. Highland Park is one of
the few areas near downtown with affordable, beautiful homes and
incredible opportunities - but they won't last.