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A Tale of Two Buildings: Two Development Projects Return to Design Review Board

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 16, 2024

A month ago, I reported on two major downtown development projects before the Design Review Board. Decisions on each were postponed with directions to the developers to make improvements on the design of the respective buildings....

McClung Warehouse Site Redevelopment In Focus, Again

Knoxville Urban Guy·November 17, 2023

A desire to redevelop the McClung Warehouses on Jackson Avenue and then, once they burned, to redevelop the site goes back well over a decade. The first portion of the building burned in 2007, with a...

Pride Month: Knoxville Proud

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 29, 2018

This week marks the end of Pride Month for 2018. Last week Knoxville celebrated our Pride Parade and Festival downtown and it was a wonderful event that highlighted the absolute best that this city has to...

Pride Month: Sharing Art and Culture

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 22, 2018

In recent years the LGBTQ community has seen a massive rise in visibility in the media. Where remaining closeted was once crucial to the success of someone’s career there is now a large and growing population...

Pride month: Past & Present Knoxville LGBT Gathering Places

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 8, 2018

(This is a second in a series of articles about Pride and Knoxville’s LGBTQ communities by guest writer Oren Yarbrough) If you walk up to someone in Knoxville and ask where the nearest gay bar is...

Knox Pride Month: An Introduction and History Lesson

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 1, 2018

*Today we welcome guest writer and local architect, Oren Yarbrough. Oren will explore several topics related to Pride Month over the next weeks. Here’s Oren: Today is the first day of June and the official beginning...

Knoxville Has a Theater District? A Brief History of Knoxville’s Theaters: Part Four of Four

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 5, 2018

Here is the final part of Oren Yarbrough’s four part series on Knoxville’s rich history with theatres. If you haven’t already done so, please check out the first three (Part One, Part Two, Part Three). It’s...

Knoxville has a Theater District? A brief history of Knoxville’s Theaters: Part Three of Four

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 4, 2018

As promised last week, here is the continuation of a look at Knoxville’s Theater District by local writer and architect, Oren Yarbrough. If you missed the first two parts, please do yourself a favor and check...

Knoxville has a Theater District? A brief history of Knoxville’s Theaters: Part Two of Four

Knoxville Urban Guy·December 28, 2017

This is a continuation of a four-part series on Knoxville’s Theatre District written by guest writer Oren Yarbrough, Architectural Intern with DIA. (Part One, Part Three, Part Four) Here’s Oren: Ironically, the location of today’s “Theatre...

The Telephone Building – The Second of Two Articles on the Downtown AT&T Building

Knoxville Urban Guy·October 10, 2017

(Ed: Today is the second of a two part series by Oren Yarbrough, architectural intern at DIA.) In the last article, I described the varied and interesting history of the collection of buildings that today makes...

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A Tale of Two Buildings: Two Development Projects Return to Design Review Board

McClung Warehouse Site Redevelopment In Focus, Again

Pride Month: Knoxville Proud

Pride Month: Sharing Art and Culture

Pride month: Past & Present Knoxville LGBT Gathering Places

Knox Pride Month: An Introduction and History Lesson

Knoxville Has a Theater District? A Brief History of Knoxville’s Theaters: Part Four of Four

Knoxville has a Theater District? A brief history of Knoxville’s Theaters: Part Three of Four

Knoxville has a Theater District? A brief history of Knoxville’s Theaters: Part Two of Four

The Telephone Building – The Second of Two Articles on the Downtown AT&T Building

Look What’s Returning! (More Than You Might Realize)

Whist Court Getting a Modern Makeover Adding to Development on Magnolia

One Downtown Business Closes and Another is Sold

Mood Ring Vintage Opens Today at 906 Sevier Avenue

Fly By Night Bringing the 70s to South Knoxville