The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (5/24 – 6/2/2015)
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...
Brewfest (June 20) Aims to Help Cure Duchenne
Festival Season is winding down and downtown residents and visitors will soon find a summertime rhythm. After the big weekend of the International Biscuit Festival and the Children’s Festival of Books, we have a three-weekend break...
Demolition/New Building Proposed for Old City
A surprise tweet started a series of communications for me a couple of days ago. The tweet suggested that two buildings in the Old City might be torn down to be replaced with new construction. The...
Development Plans for Depot Avenue
Last March I took a stroll down Depot Avenue with a large group from Knox Heritage through some of the development projects planned by Dewhirst Properties. David Dewhirst led the way and talked quite extensively about...
2015 Children’s Festival of Reading is Great Fun for the Everyone
That reading is an essential skill to be encouraged in our culture, I hope is a point on which we all agree. Unfortunately, I fear it is an endangered practice. I’m afraid, frequently, most adults read...
2015 International Biscuit Festival May Be The Best So Far
The sixth annual International Biscuit Festival has come and gone and, according to the website, as many as 20,000 people took part. I wouldn’t hazard a guess, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was, indeed,...
The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (5/17 – 5/29/2015)
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...
Plans and a Look Inside the John H. Daniel Building
It’s really a set of three buildings which have long been internally connected. The oldest is 124 West Jackson which is distinguished by its more ornamental facade. As Knoxville’s economy shifted from mills to the manufacture...
More Little Changes in the City
While I listed a half-dozen and one changes just last week, there are a number of others worth mentioning. I suspect this may become a regular feature as so many changes are happening and I can’t...
Want to Rappel From a Downtown Building? Here’s Your Chance!
We’ve talked in this space about rappelling from parking garages. In particular, we’ve talked about rappelling from the Walnut Street Garage (the new one). This is close. Canadian company with a US division Over the Edge, in...