Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (5/6 – 5/15/2018)
If you want to be certain your event is included on this calendar, I’ll need your event two weeks in advance. The absolute best way to make sure I include your event is to make a...
A Cool Urban Home Inside the Ely Building – And a preview of the City People Home Tour
The first time I wrote about the Ely Building (May, 2012), it was on the market for $899,000. It eventually sold to Eddie and Kelley Reymond for $725,000 and I wrote about their plans for renovations...
Knoxville Opera Presents Aida This Weekend: A Pictorial Preview
Knoxville Opera concludes their season this weekend on the heels of the Rossini Festival. Verdi’s Aida will be produced Friday night and Sunday afternoon at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium where productions were shifted this season. Seasoned veteran Dean...
Evolving Supreme Court Site Development Plans
Rick Dover, DIA Architects, J Davis Architects and Bristol Development Group recently presented their current vision for the Supreme Court Site on the downtown block bounded by Henley, Church, Locust and Cumberland to City Council in...
Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes 2018, Part Two
In case you missed it, here is part one. We continued our tour at 1219 Luttrell Street, the home of another friend, Brett Burdick. The 1921 Craftsman home was originally occupied by the Wright family for...
Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes 2018, Part One
It would appear we’ve earned some good karma in weather world. Another major annual event, the Fourth and Gill Tour of Homes, featured just about perfect weather. A year ago, it was definitely not the case...
Dogwood Arts Festival 2018 Celebrated in Perfect Weather
Downtown Knoxville was caught up in Dogwood Arts Festival fever from Friday morning into the evening on Sunday. Crowds built slowly through the day on Friday and by Friday night thousands had joined the fun. Saturday...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (4/29 – 5/8/2018)
If you want to be certain your event is included on this calendar, I’ll need your event two weeks in advance. The absolute best way to make sure I include your event is to make a...
Old City Athletic Club to Open Downtown
When the Daniel opened in January two years ago, owners Jon Clark and Ron Turner expressed an interest in filling the retail portion of the building with businesses which would enhance the building and the neighborhood,...
Old City Performing Arts Center Announced
It’s funny how things eventually converge. I first mentioned the Cor-Tenn Company in an article about businesses we tend to overlook. They eventually moved from their location at 111 State Street and the building has sat empty...