Bellhops Diego Meraz and Donald McDowell carry a couch into a Walnut Street apartment in downtown Chattanooga.Growing Chattanooga startup company Bellhops is moving shop to Warehouse Row as the business strikes out into its own office space.
The moving company, which now offers services in more than 120 markets in 42 states, is relocating from the Lamp Post Group incubator in the Lovemans building downtown to a 8,142 square-foot suite a few blocks away in Warehouse Row's mixed-use site off Market Street.
Bellhops connects customers planning relocations with the manpower they need, logging close to 10,000 moves in this past year alone, according to the company.
Michael Phillips, president of Warehouse Row owner Jamestown, said that startups like Bellhops are at the heart of Chattanooga's growing innovation economy.
"The property's creative lofts, premier office spaces, restaurants and retail offerings have made Warehouse Row a desirable location for the city's downtown workforce," he said in a statement.
Cameron Doody, Bellhops chairman and co-founder, said the Warehouse Row space is now being prepared and the company is expected to move in a couple of months. He said the business has about 40 employees in Chattanooga.
See more in Saturday's Times Free Press.