The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (2/26/2017 – 3/7/2017)
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...
Knoxville Town Hall: ACA – Repeal, Replace or Repair?
Town hall meetings have been in the news a great deal, recently. Congress is currently on recess and the custom has been to use the recess to meet with constituents in one forum or another, with...
Road Diets: What Are They? What Does a Good One Look Like?
The above video came across my Twitter feed recently and helped me understand road diets in various formats better than I’d ever understood them before. Several points stood out, no matter which of the four...
Getting Cars Off the Street and a Couple of National Shout-Outs for Knoxville
Today we’ll look at some of the issues we talk about or reference often on this city and I’ll share some of the good reading I’ve done recently on each of the topics. We’ll end with...
Even in the Quietest Parts of Downtown . . .
It’s easy to fall into the trap of looking only at the shiniest, most exciting or prominent projects. It’s hard to miss the big things happening, such as the old KUB/new Tombras building, the Marriott...
A New Pedestrian Bridge, A New Location for the Coliseum Proposed and More
Today we take another deep-dive into downtown design issues. David Denton joins us, once again, to look at some of the most confounding conundrums we face: Access to the river from atop our steep bluff, connectivity...
The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (2/19/2017 – 2/28/2017)
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...
Knoxville’s Scarecrow Foundation Set to Go National with Throw Deep for Hunger
It was a year-and-a-half ago that I first introduced readers to the Scarecrow Foundation. Headed by Jimmy Buckner, the organization has had as its purpose from the beginning to “Help End Hunger in America.” Unconventional...
A Downtown Building Finds a New Purpose; A Downtown Institution Plans Move
Unless you’ve had a car repaired there – and many people have over the years – you’d not likely be familiar with the building at 213 E. Fifth Avenue. Should you have reason to drive east...
The Missing Link: How to Connect the Parts of Downtown
Ed.: As has been the case in the past, David Denton joins us today with an exploration of a relatively simple way to connect the Arts District and Old City to the Gay Street/Market Square Area....