Courtesy of Chattanooga Times Free Press

Stuart Bickley was walking through Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church, a leaky stone complex where walls were ripped out, power tools cranked, scaffolding was everywhere and partially boarded-up windows left key interior spaces in shadow.

“This is a major operation,” said Bickley, a general contractor of 25 years on Lookout Mountain who’s managing the project for the church. “This is open heart surgery. And frankly, while we were opening up the chest, we found a lot of blocked arteries.”

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