Development Updates: 200 Block of Gay Street
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
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)
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...
Ice Cream Shoot-out on Gay Street
South Gay Street has three ice cream parlors within hailing distance of each other: Cruze Farm, Kilwins and The Phoenix Pharmacy and Fountain. The Eurythmics put it best: “sweet dreams are made of this.” When it...
News on the Pier 865 Sculpture in Country Music Park (and new Downtown EV Charging Stations)
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
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
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)
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
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...
612 Building to Enhance the Tennessee Theatre: Capital Campaign Begins
(Today’s article is written by contributing writer K.W. Leonard.) When the Tennessee Theatre opened in 1928, few likely envisioned the scope of the Theatre’s mission and purpose nearly 100 years later. As this vision expanded in...