Scruffy City Ramble Has Been Postponed
Due to the weather, the Scruffy City Ramble will be rescheduled for a later date. We’ll all just have to make our own music tonight. Enjoy the snow, everybody....
January Scruffy City Ramble (with pictures from last month)
Here’s my monthly post on this great series. The lineup tonight is crazy good. Sadly, unless I get an assist from mother nature, I will be dutifully working away and will miss this one. I love...
2012 in Review: Downtown Knoxville Business Openings
So, we’ve noted our losses, how about our gains? Did openings keep pace with or surpass closings? As I stated yesterday, we had a closing almost every month. For a small downtown with bigger aspirations, that seems...
2012 in Review: Downtown Business Losses
Time passes quickly in these heady days in downtown Knoxville. Some portions of the year seem to be nothing more than a blur of activity. Sprinkled among the music festivals, parades and annual events are business...
CNN Visits Boyd’s Jig and Reel?!?
It seemed odd: a notice on Facebook last Thursday night that CNN would visit Boyd’s Jig and Reel. When I learned that it centered on a food topic, that seemed even more strange. First, since when...
Final Shot of Business News for Your Week
Today I’m mostly going to give you some photographs of business developments I noticed before the end of the year. Next week I hope to use a couple of days to review 2012 in downtown business...
Coming Downtown Knoxville Development in 2013
Yesterday, WBIR ran a piece about downtown development that I thought was helpful, surprising in some ways and at least narrow in focus, if not biased in other ways. A very positive story, as one would...
It’s the Little Things: Changes in the City
So many tiny little changes creep into the city that we sometimes notice and sometimes miss, but taken all together each little increment moves our city steadily along its journey of self-discovery and its evolution into the...
A Tale of Two Bridges
Actually, one is a viaduct, but they are on the same road, aren’t very far apart and where one is currently causing headaches, the other will eventually start to do so. So, we’ll consider them together....
Tennessee Shines Sparkles Tonight
I’ve not said much about the Tennessee Shines series which happens at the Knoxville Visitor’s Center. For whatever reason, Monday seems to be a hard night for me to clear my schedule and make it to...