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...
State Street Garage
A Parking App is Available and More Spaces Are Coming: A Downtown Parking Update
Very early in my stint as a downtown blogger I was told by a city official that parking was a never-ending conversation in every city. Obviously, it was true. We were talking about downtown parking in...
Bridges, Roads and Garages, Oh My! Heads Up on What’s Coming Your Way
To put a spin on the cliche, in the end, all news is good news – at least in this case, but in the meantime there’s likely to be a price to pay for the improvements...
Lots of Little Downtown Updates
Sometimes it just seems time to catch up and to catch our collective breath. The truth is so many thing are happening so fast in downtown Knoxville that they can’t all have a devoted article. As...
State Street Garage Is Open for Business – and Nearly Finished
It is surprising when I consider that the State Street Parking Garage has been underway for over a year. This doesn’t include the planning stage, but it was a year ago July that the plans...
State Street Garage Update, May 2013
A Knoxville News Sentinel article earlier this week confirmed that the State Street Garage is on pace to be completed in August, which was the original target date. Of course, Rick Emmett maintains a blog for...
Dead Country Stars, Sangrias Closes, Urban Outfitters and State Street Garage Notes
I’m not a fan of global warming in general, but the occasional warm day in February is kind of nice. I suppose it’s a guilty pleasure of sorts. Saturday was such a day. By the...
It’s the Little Things: Changes in the City
So many tiny little changes creep into the city that we sometimes notice and sometimes miss, but taken all together each little increment moves our city steadily along its journey of self-discovery and its evolution into the...
Meanwhile, in different part of town . . . Another Parking Garage
The plans for the State Street Garage were discussed at a meeting held in the East Tennessee History Center on Thursday night, and while not as controversial as the new construction on Walnut, Summer Place and...