City People Home Tour 2018: A Look Inside Downtown Homes, Part One
I hope you all made it out to the City People Home Tour and enjoyed the great weather and big crowds taking a peek into a few sample downtown residences. It’s a tour my wife and...
Arnstein Building
A Look Into a Small Urban Home and the Person Who Chose to Live There
I recently met Tere Stouffer in her small apartment in the Arnstein Building (Above Urban Outfitters) just off the southwest corner of Market Square. I asked how she came to be living in downtown Knoxville and...
City People Home Tour 2015, Part One
So many things are happening downtown just on the weekends, that it’s hard to keep up. The City People Home Tour is one of the most important, in my opinion. It gives a wide audience the...
More Homes around Market Square, CDC Tour 2013
In this final post from the Community Design Center Tour, we’ll look at several homes: one owned and others leased. Some are newly built in old buildings and one has been around for a while. All...
The Finished Product: Top Floor of the Arnstein Building Inside and Out
Some of you may remember a previous post in which I was graciously allowed to view some of the apartments inside the Arnstein Building as they were under construction. It’s a fascinating project – Knoxville’s first...
A Look Inside the Arnstein Building
I’ve probably been asked as much about the Arnstein Building as I have about any other location downtown. With its on-again, off-again, back on-again flirtation with Urban Outfitters and its prominent location bordering both Market Square...
Coming Downtown Knoxville Development in 2013
Yesterday, WBIR ran a piece about downtown development that I thought was helpful, surprising in some ways and at least narrow in focus, if not biased in other ways. A very positive story, as one would...
Goodbye to 11 Cafe – Knoxville Business Updates for September 2012
Several business related news items have circulated the last couple of weeks and seemed worth a mention. One closing in particular took me by surprise. Only nine months ago I noted the opening of a new...
Downtown Knoxville Business and Construction Update
I discussed several businesses or construction projects last week including Cru Bistro, Scruffy City Hall and the Arby’s Building. One small update to that post: I suggested that each of these would have to decide whether...