Frothy Monkey Announced for the Kress Building
The journey for the Kress Building at 417-421 South Gay Street has been a long and winding one, if not tortured at times. In the years since its use as a S.H. Kress and Company department...
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Kress Building Sold, New Plans Announced
In recent months, I’ve been asked repeatedly about the Kress Building. Most recently, a year-and-a-half ago, I’d detailed Dave McFarland’s plans to bring Wild Wings Cafe to the space and that sign has been in the...
A Preview of the Plans for the Kress Building and Wild Wing Cafe
As I mentioned in yesterday’s article, Dave McFarland, current owner of the Kress Building offered to show me around the inside of the building and give me a look at the most recent version of the...
More Questions Answered and an Odd Real Estate Pitch
Answers always net new questions on this blog, which is a good thing. Knoxville has a lot of balls in the air at once and I don’t mean the iconic kind. There’s a lot going on...
Kress Building Purchased, Wild Wing Cafe Back, More Plans Considered
It’s a crazy arc for a story, an almost unbelievable ending to a tale that was thought to be concluded. In 2014, Kress, LLC, a group including Brant Enderle of Henry and Wallace (etc.), purchased the...
Wild Wing Cafe Will Not Come to the Kress Building
Business is complicated and sometimes something that seems improbable happens and, more often, something that seems a done deal comes unraveled. Such is the case with Wild Wing Cafe moving to the Kress Building. It becomes...
Updates on Babalu (JC Penney Bldg) and Wild Wing Cafe (Kress Bldg)
I’m going to try to keep this a bit more brief after writing approximately one million words yesterday. I had another million, but cut myself off. I appreciate the response so many of you had to Jeremiah...
Downtown News, Fun and Giveaways
There has been so much going on downtown recently, that an article a day just doesn’t get it all in. I’m going to cover a lot of ground in this article and each item won’t necessarily...
Inside the Kress Building
There’s an allure to walking around inside an old building. Paying careful attention a person might see clues to its historic past, touch woodwork of a bygone era and sometimes even smell the past. It’s an...
End of the Year Rush: Businesses Close, Open, Move
There’s just something about the end of a year that makes us re-evaluate. On a personal level, we’re a year older for certain, heavier or healthier, a little richer or a little poorer, closer to our...