Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (4/15 – 4/24/2018)
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 Downtown Business Moves to Fountain City
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...
Felding Co., Men’s Clothing Store, Announces New Location
In February, Luke Lanzoni announced his intentions to open a men’s clothing store in the downtown area. His intention then, as now, is to have a store near Market Square. He also, however, is keen to...
Site-Built Tiny Homes Arrive Near Downtown
Last fall, in an article discussing the possible role of tiny homes in an urban environment, I covered the Clayton Homes luxury line of tiny homes and mentioned that I’d heard there might be a move...
Rhythm n Blooms 2018: Rain, Cold and Musical Gold (Part Three)
Day three started early, for me, as I headed to the WUTK studio to do Knoxcentric. Luke Brogdin of Southern Cities graciously agreed to join me for a bit to talk about their set the previous...
Rhythm n Blooms 2018: Rain, Cold and Musical Gold (Part Two)
Day two is usually where the fatigue starts to set in a bit. Add to that the weather on day two – hovering in the 30s with a mist most of the day, and it became...
Rhythm n Blooms 2018: Rain, Cold and Musical Gold (Part One)
It’s always an exciting weekend for the city. People travel to the festival in large numbers and, it seems, everyone who loves music and lives here joins in, as well. While Big Ears stretches my listening,...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (4/8 – 4/17/2018)
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...
Sevier Avenue Streetscape Project Input Deadline Approaches
Dawn Michelle Foster, Knoxville’s Redevelopment Director, said the project has been “on the docket,” since 2009. Nearly a decade later, the project has subsequently been broken into smaller pieces. Suttree Landing Park was a portion of...
What do Thomas Jefferson, Washington D.C., and East Tennessee have in common?
(Written by Guest Writer Richard Allen Foster, AIA, LEED AP, 2018 President, AIA East Tennessee, Director of Design, Lewis Group Architects) The first answer is East Tennessee Pink Marble. It was quarried right here in our...