AUGUST 16, 2025 TRUITT NEWS RADIO SHOW: Guests were Rick Oates (State Forrester, Alabama Forestry Commission) and John Dersham (Executive Director, Visit Lookout Mountain Alabama)

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Topics we touched on this week include:

• Cook Museum of Natural Sciences is expanding in downtown Decatur, AL. Will just about double in size to around 120,000 square feet, have a new hotel built and the city is adding a 500-space parking deck.
• Weekly Construction Update
• Nashville scrapyard sold for $245,000,000. Something amazing will end up on that site.
• CONGRATS: Chicken Salad Chick reaches 300 units. Brand was founded in Auburn, AL back in 2008.
• CONGRATS: Show alum Jason Owenby and the Jack Brown's Beer & Burgers team on getting their new location in the Greenhills neighborhood of Nashville open.
• Sounds like Gatlinburg is getting a new hotel that will be called The Scoundrel and be a Marriott affiliate.
• Stadium Trace Village is getting Battle Republic and Urban Cookhouse as tenants. They are going to do great there.

Thanks to the Poarch Creek Indians, Financial Advisor Stuart Johnson, Alabama AGC, Stadium Trace Village and Truitt Insurance & Bonding for sponsoring. 

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