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A Walking Tour of Henley Street with Bike Walk Knoxville

Knoxville Urban Guy·October 24, 2024

Bike Walk Knoxville, founded in 2012 by Caroline Cooney, focuses on improving biking and walking in the Knoxville area, “. . . to make sure all ages and abilities in the community have safe and accessible...

Development Updates: Covenant Health Park (The Baseball Stadium) and Axle

Knoxville Urban Guy·October 23, 2024

Continuing the thread from yesterday, here’s the latest look at the other large-scale projects currently underway in the downtown area. Of the two, it’s been longer since I looked at the Axle project and the differences...

Development Updates: 200 Block of Gay Street

Knoxville Urban Guy·October 22, 2024

Here’s the latest installment in the large development projects we’re following. It’s the first since July and a lot of progress has been made in each. Today we’ll focus on the 200 block of Gay Street....

Interlopers, Scalawags, and Carpetbaggers

Knoxville Urban Guy·October 21, 2024

I recently had dinner on a patio off Market Square. The food met all expectations, the early autumn Knoxville weather shined like a diamond, and I relished the sounds of a language I could not identify...

Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (10/20 – 10/29/2024)

Knoxville Urban Guy·October 20, 2024

If you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me via the “invite” button on the event page (Alan Sims – you’ll have to friend me), and it will be included. I need...

News on the Pier 865 Sculpture in Country Music Park (and new Downtown EV Charging Stations)

Knoxville Urban Guy·October 17, 2024

It’s been a mystery as to why the pace of installing the new “Pier 865” sculpture by THEVERYMANY, a New York studio led by artist Marc Fornes seemed to slow to a stop. I’m pretty...

Knoxville Expands Pedestrian Zone from Market Square

Knoxville Urban Guy·October 16, 2024

In 2016 I wrote an article asking “Is Knoxville the Boulder of the East?” My article was a response to an article declaring as much in Denver Life. Turns out I was able to make it...

Merchants of Beer to Close

Knoxville Urban Guy·October 15, 2024

The northwest corner of Summit Hill and Central Street has long offered a prominent example of the damage done to downtown in the 1970s and 1980s. Once filled with buildings, the half-acre space has offered a...

Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (10/13 – 10/22/2024)

Knoxville Urban Guy·October 13, 2024

If you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me via the “invite” button on the event page (Alan Sims – you’ll have to friend me), and it will be included. I need...

Medical Arts Homes to be Sold: Fifty New Condos Added to Downtown

Knoxville Urban Guy·October 11, 2024

It was over eleven years ago I first wrote of the brothers Grace (Michael and Thomas) and their plans to convert an office building to apartments. The building, built around 1930, and owned by the brothers...

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A Walking Tour of Henley Street with Bike Walk Knoxville

Development Updates: Covenant Health Park (The Baseball Stadium) and Axle

Development Updates: 200 Block of Gay Street

Interlopers, Scalawags, and Carpetbaggers

Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (10/20 – 10/29/2024)

News on the Pier 865 Sculpture in Country Music Park (and new Downtown EV Charging Stations)

Knoxville Expands Pedestrian Zone from Market Square

Merchants of Beer to Close

Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (10/13 – 10/22/2024)

Medical Arts Homes to be Sold: Fifty New Condos Added to Downtown

Look What’s Returning! (More Than You Might Realize)

Whist Court Getting a Modern Makeover Adding to Development on Magnolia

One Downtown Business Closes and Another is Sold

Mood Ring Vintage Opens Today at 906 Sevier Avenue

Fly By Night Bringing the 70s to South Knoxville