The Westside Community has a bold vision for reclaiming and rebuilding a historic downtown neighborhood. Neighborhood leaders have joined together with the wider Chattanooga community to fundamentally rethink the way people and communities are transformed. The community is committed to ensuring that every resident, from the youngest to the oldest, plays an active role in the transformation process, and that every member of the community has an opportunity to experience a full share of life. In a series of neighborhood forums, community residents of all ages gathered to discuss individual and community values, goals, and the possibilities for a better life.
Residents are healthier, through better health care and improved life habits.
The dream of home ownership is available to more people. Decent behavior is expected and encouraged of residents and the people they bring into their homes. The transformation process begins with a sense of life' s greater possibilities. The process relies on individual and community initiative and results in strengthened values that mobilize and sustain everyone's efforts to succeed. This urban neighborhood, roughly defined by Riverfront Parkway, West Martin Luther King Boulevard and I-24, is home for 2800 people.