RENDER · INTERIOR
Bottom of staircase looking diagonally into the floor
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01 / At the door · Ooltewah, TN · 24/7 access

Open when you are. Always.

Cornerstone is a bouldering-only climbing gym with 24/7 access for members. Kilter board, Tension board, world-class setting, weekly trips to the crags. Built around one question: does this make someone feel like they belong here? Opening in the Ooltewah / Collegedale area.

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24 / 7Member access, any hour
13,300 sq ftSingle-floor footprint
Founders firstEarliest members locked in
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The living room

A gym that feels
like home.

The climbing is the excuse. The community is the product.

Most climbing gyms are warehouses with walls. You come in, you climb, you leave. The space doesn't ask anything of you, and you don't ask anything of it.

Cornerstone is designed in reverse. When you walk through the door, the climbing floor is not the first thing you meet. A social living room is — a pool table under a cluster of pendants, two ping pong tables, lounge seating that feels like someone's house, a wool rug on polished concrete, real plants. Coffee from the loft drifting down.

You climb because you came to climb. You stay because everyone you wanted to see is already here.

The building decides whether the community happens. — Design thesis
RENDER · LIVING ROOM
Pool table · pendant cluster · lounge
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The floor

Bouldering only.
Done right.

One discipline, given the space and the route-setting it deserves. Walls cap at fifteen feet. The geometry does the rest.

RENDER · THE ISLAND
Freestanding 20 × 30 × 15 ft feature with prow roof
13,300
Sq ft total
7,200
Sq ft of mat
15ft
Max wall height
8
Wall angles
2
Cave features

What's on the floor.

  1. 24/7 member accessTap in at three in the morning if that's when you climb. Doors unlock with your member fob, any hour, every day. The most consistent climbers we know don't keep gym hours.
  2. The IslandA 20-by-30-foot freestanding feature in the center of the room. Four faces, two aretes, a steep prow with a real horizontal roof. The thing your eye finds first.
  3. Kilter Board + Tension BoardBoth. Standard 48-by-48 Kilter and a full Tension Board, side by side in the training bay. When the Kilter lights up at night it's a beacon you can see from the front door.
  4. Slab and verticalNear the entry. Approachable for a first session. Technical enough to humble a V8 climber on the same problem.
  5. Overhang baysGentle and steep wrapping the perimeter. Where most climbers spend most of their time.
  6. DihedralsBuilt into real architectural corners. Rare in commercial gyms. Sought out for a reason.
  7. A back caveTucked in a corner. Low clearance. Claustrophobic in the best way.
  8. The training bayCampus rungs, four hangboards at varied grips, antagonist weights for shoulders and elbows. Serious, not a dungeon.
RENDER · BACK CAVE
Low-clearance corner feature
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The loft

A café
with a view.

The mezzanine sits above the entry-side social zone, accessible by an open staircase. Cable rail. White oak treads. Coffee at the top.

The espresso bar runs along the back wall under Edison bulbs. Eight to twelve study seats line the rail with outlets at every chair. Soft lounge seating at the edge for the people who came up to watch.

From here you can see the entire building. The living room below. The island. The training bay. Someone sending a project they've been working three weeks.

This is the quietest perch in the building, and the most engaged. Safety and stimulation in the same seat. That combination is what keeps people in the building for three hours instead of one.

RENDER · THE LOFT
Espresso bar · study seats · rail view
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The ground

Built for this corner
of Tennessee.

Ooltewah and Collegedale sit at the doorstep of some of the best sandstone climbing in the country. Cornerstone is a gym for the people who live and work here, and a base camp for everyone who drives in for the lines outside.

01
Stone Fort
LRC · 20 min
02
T-Wall
Tennessee Wall · 45 min
03
Foster Falls
South Cumberland · 1 hr
04
Obed
Wartburg · 2 hr
Weekly outdoor trips

We drive. We bring pads. You climb.

Every week Cornerstone runs a carpool to one of the local crags. We coordinate the ride, load up a stack of community crash pads from the gym, and split the gas. Show up at the door with your shoes and chalk. We handle the rest.

New to outdoor climbing? Get a session with someone who already knows the lines. Driving down anyway? Bring two more climbers with you.

  • 01Weekly trip calendar posted at the gym and online
  • 02Shared crash pads loaded at the door
  • 03Carpool sign-up, gas split among the seats
  • 04Mixed crews — first-timers and locals
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The list

Get on the
founding list.

Before a single wall goes up, we want to know who this is for.

If Cornerstone is something you'd actually use, get on the list. You'll be the first to hear when membership opens, and the first in line for founding rates.

  • No spam. No commitment.
  • Phone is optional. Only if you want text updates.
  • Your info stays private. We use it to build, not sell.

Built for more.

Matthew 6:33