If the future of brick and mortar retail is local and regional, Jacks of Knoxville is hitting all the right notes. Located at 133 South Gay Street, the new store owned and operated by downtown residents...
It’s been a bit of a moving target over the years, for various reasons. I first wrote about it in February 2013 when a second location for the west Knoxville business opened a half mile out...
It’s a truth that may be hard to keep in focus in these heady times in downtown Knoxville, but businesses don’t always make it and the ones that are successful for a period of time don’t...
It’s been a while since I reported a closing on Market Square. Since a spate of closures around the end of 2014, I don’t think a single business on the square has called it quits. Coldstream...
You may never have considered the building as a whole, though you may have eaten at Frussie’s recently or the Laurel Mountain Eatery before it. The building at the corner of Cumberland and Gay is also...
The Century Building at 312 S. Gay Street is the new home to Scott Temple’s photography business. Temple Photography has been his full-time enterprise since 2010 with a focus on wedding photography and he’s excited to have...
It was an experiment for downtown Knoxville and, in the end, a successful one. When Coldstream Market announced its opening in September 2013 at 34 Market Square, the event was notable not only because it brought a...
One of Knoxville’s favorite coffee shops will soon arrive downtown. Co-owners and brothers Michael and Pierce LaMacchia decided to take the best of K Brew at their very successful shop at 1328 N. Broadway and bring...
Those of you who have followed this blog for a long time know that I have been a fan of, and have closely followed, the little specialty grocery store, Just Ripe. In January of 2011 I...
Many of you have enjoyed the tactile pleasure of unwrapping a small taste of heaven purchased from the Good Golly Tamale food cart. Made from organic, non-GMO ingredients, the tamales are of the highest quality ingredients....