Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (5/20 – 5/29/2018)
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...
New Home Construction, “The Overlook” Announced for Downtown
I’ve written before about a quiet section of town along Hill Avenue, just to the east of Henley on the north side of the bridge. It’s seen some change in recent years – and months –...
Holler Performing Arts Center Set to Open in June
It’s been an evolutionary process since Modern Studio opened in January 2017 at 109 W. Anderson Avenue (a half block from the primary intersection in Happy Holler). At the time, the business featured two owners, Burke...
Centro Hispano and Claudia Caballero Quietly Work to Improve the Community
It’s a bit chaotic to the eye when you enter the Centro Hispano headquarters off Sutherland. The view of the city skyline outside is traded for people scurrying about, mingling Spanish and English as needed or...
What is Good Growth? What is Good Development?
Please don’t expect that either I completely understand the answers to those questions or that I can condense the information to a meme-sized statement. Urban growth and development are complicated topics. Sometimes it’s easier to point...
Did You Know That? News You Might Have Missed
Large amounts of information pass my way. Sometimes it’s interesting, but not enough for a proper article. Other times it is reported in other media before I see it and so, the urgency isn’t there to...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (5/13 – 5/22/2018)
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...
Construction Update: The Mews II
About eight months have passed since I announced the plans for the Mews II, the second set of condominiums Jeffrey Nash is constructing on Magnolia Avenue. The first, The Mews, on the opposite side of Ogden...
Knoxvillian Laura Mansfield Wrote the Book on Dealing With Aging Parents
She didn’t set out to write the book. It started with posts on her personal Facebook Page chronicling the trials, tribulations and sometimes hilarity of caring for her aging parents, Gmamma and DooDaddy. The posts garnered...
Making a City More Beautiful, One Piece of Wood at a Time
You may have seen his work around town or you may have attended an event at Ironwood Studios at 119 Jennings (Just off Central), the 17,500 square foot space occupied by his woodworking studio and Preston...