iFixit warehouse plan approved by city panel
A project that’s adding more than 200 jobs to Chattanooga’s Onion Bottom won approval Thursday from a city panel for a parking lot improvement and a site change to better enable the use of a loading dock.
Micah Duffey of ASA Engineering, representing the planned iFixit service facility and warehouse, said after a meeting of the city’s Form-Based Code Committee that an extensive renovation is on schedule at an existing 60-year-old building at 812 E. 12th St.
The company is investing $24.2 million to buy, renovate, equip and staff what was an abandoned warehouse that originally housed Dixie Produce Co. California-based iFixit had sought approval to add curb cuts to the site for the loading dock and to allow a church nearby to better access the parking lot which it uses.
Although iFixit does not repair equipment itself, it provides the tools, kits and instructions to help others…
