Chattanooga College, a for-profit trade school based in Tennessee, is planting a flag in Atlanta right next to the Braves. The school has signed an 11-year lease for roughly 27,000 square feet in the 360 building at the Braves’ Pennant Park office park. The new campus is slated to open in 2027 and is expected to start by serving about 350 students annually, with plans to scale to roughly 800 students within three years. The move fits into a broader wave of post-secondary programs snapping up office and adaptive-reuse space across Metro Atlanta.
As reported by Bisnow, Braves Development Company announced the lease, and the school said it expects to employ about 145 people once enrollment ramps up. The report notes that Chattanooga College is headed for the 360 Building at Pennant Park, a six-building, roughly 763,000-square-foot office park the team purchased last year. The deal is framed as part of a wider spike in for-profit and vocational schools seeking commercial space across the region.
About Chattanooga College
Chattanooga College operates two campuses in Tennessee and focuses on healthcare and allied-health training, including nursing, radiology and surgical technology, according to the school’s website at Chattanooga College. The school emphasizes hands-on lab work and flexible scheduling as core features of its programs, and it is positioning the Atlanta campus to serve students pursuing career-focused credentials. School materials cite local clinical partnerships and employer demand for skilled healthcare workers as key reasons behind the expansion into the Atlanta area.
Schools Are Turning Offices Into Classrooms
The Chattanooga College lease fits into a national-to-local trend in which training providers are converting office and warehouse space into places for hands-on instruction. Universal Technical Institute is rolling out a 150,000-square-foot campus in Smyrna, and Concorde Career Colleges has taken nearly 47,300 square feet for a Lee + White campus, according to announcements from Universal Technical Institute and reporting by Urbanize Atlanta. Brokers and developers say schools can be attractive tenants, since programs need large, flexible floorplates and landlords are eager to fill space left behind by traditional office users.
Braves’ Real Estate Strategy
The Chattanooga College deal also highlights how the Braves are leaning on real estate to smooth out revenue when no one is throwing a pitch. Atlanta Braves Holdings bought Pennant Park in 2025, according to a team press release, and the organization has been actively marketing space there for office and institutional users in the corridor around Truist Park and The Battery. Local coverage has pointed out that the team’s growing property portfolio is now a material piece of the franchise’s business plan and serves as a stabilizer for non-game revenue…