Tivoli Theatre in Chattanooga getting money from Tennessee for improvements


The Tivoli Theatre in Chattanooga is getting some money from the state of Tennessee.

Tennessee’s Department of Economic and Community Development announced Monday that the venue is on a list of historic places across the state getting a Historic Development Grant. (See the full list below).

The Tivoli will get $400,000 to help its rehabilitation.

4 years ago, Chattanooga’s City Council approved money for the Tivoli’s expansion into a performing arts center.

The Tivoli also got some federal money as part of the COVID-19 relief that Congress passed, after it was forced to shut down for months during the pandemic.

Here’s the full list of places in Tennessee getting Historic Development Grants, announced by Tennessee’s Department of Economic and Community Development:

  • Bingham Properties – $300,000 to rehabilitate the RC Kefauver House in Madisonville, TN
  • Black Feather Botanicals, LLC – $20,000 to rehabilitate the Lawrence County Advocate in Lawrenceburg, TN
  • City of Lawrenceburg – $300,000 to rehabilitate the Crockett Theater in Lawrenceburg, TN
  • Clinch-Powell RC&D Council, Inc. – $150,000 to rehabilitate the Rutledge Church in Rutledge, TN
  • County of Hardeman – $296,625 to rehabilitate the Hardeman County Historical Records/Archives in Bolivar, TN
  • Dynamix Physical Therapy, LLC – $10,000 to rehabilitate the Varsity Theater in Weakley, TN
  • Friends of Franklin Parks, Inc. – $300,000 to rehabilitate Harlinsdale Farm in Franklin, TN
  • Hawkins County Government – $300,000 to rehabilitate the Clay-Kenner House in Rogersville, TN
  • Hiram Masonic Lodge No. 7 Foundation – $300,000 to rehabilitate the Hiram Masonic Lodge No. 7 in Franklin, TN
  • HREH, LLC – $113,000 to rehabilitate the Earles Drug & Professional Building in Franklin, TN
  • Jamey Fillers – $300,000 to rehabilitate the Greeneville Historic District in Greeneville, TN
  • KBD LLC – $125,000 to rehabilitate the Felkner Building in Morristown, TN
  • Lakeway Holdings Co. – $300,000 to rehabilitate the Southern Bell and Telegraph Building in Morristown, TN
  • Masquerade Theatre Inc. – $68,000 to rehabilitate the Capitol Theatre in Union City, TN
  • Michael P. Johnson – $100,000 to rehabilitate 115 North Main Street in Jellico, TN
  • Regents Park QOZB, LLC – $300,000 to rehabilitate the Lowenstein House in Memphis, TN
  • Rogersville/Hawkins County Chamber of Commerce – $286,650 to rehabilitate St. Mark’s Church in Rogersville, TN
  • Scott P. Ledbetter – $300,000 to rehabilitate 119 N Main Bolivar Court Square in Bolivar, TN
  • Sean Zearfoss – $67,200 to rehabilitate the William M. Gailbreath House in Gainsboro, TN
  • Sterling Hedrick, LLC – $300,000 to rehabilitate the Sterick Building in Memphis, TN
  • The Dermon Building OZ LLC – $300,000 to rehabilitate the Dermon Building
  • in Memphis, TN
  • The Sevierville Commons Association – $300,000 to rehabilitate the Sevierville Post Office in Sevierville, TN
  • Tivoli Theatre Foundation, Inc. – $400,000 to rehabilitate the Tivoli Theatre in Chattanooga, TN
  • United Way of West Tennessee – $200,000 to rehabilitate the Stanton School in Stanton, TN
  • Watauga Property Group – $300,000 to rehabilitate the Elizabethon Post Office in Elizabethton, TN
  • Wilson County Black History Committee – $100,000 to rehabilitate the Pickett Chapel in Lebanon, TN

Would you like to see if historic property qualifies? Here’s a list of the criteria.


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