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A new lift station project will expand development in Knoxville’s Veterans District.

With the expansion of eight new residential lots in the Veterans District, the City has now reached an invisible line where it can’t expand any further until the lift station is built. Last month, the City received $750,000 in federal funding for the project, which will allow Knoxville to continue expanding housing and revitalization in the area. The funding was secured by Mayor Brian Hatch, city council members, City Manager Heather Ussery, former Economic Development Director Glenn Lyons, current Economic Development Director Christopher Watkins, and, with the assistance of Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks, whose office helped secure the funding through the federal appropriations process.

The sanitary lift station will help specifically with development to the west in the Veterans District. City Manager Heather Ussery says this is a significant part of the ongoing progress. 

“The City of Knoxville has a gravity-fed sewer system, so it is all about the depths of that infrastructure, and for the basements to be able to be built, we have to have a lift station that is able to pump that to the surface through a gravity-fed sewer system. The lift station is a crucial part of the continued development west in the Veterans District.”

Hear more about the project from Ussery on today’s Let’s Talk Knoxville.