Cool, but friendly Urban Outfitters, Knoxville, October 2011 It was an odd sight at the corner of Church and Gay earlier this week. A make-shift barricade segmented a portion of the parking lot which was thereby...

 Caziques performs at Alive After Five, Knoxville Museum of Art Alive After Five, Knoxville Museum of Art I recently enjoyed another round of Alive After Five at the Knoxville Museum of Art. Alive After Five actually...

Fire Street Lofts, Old City, Knoxville I’ll move on to other topics after today’s post, but I did want to mention the last two homes I visited on my downtown home tour. Both are in the...

Ryan’s Row, W. Vine Avenue, Knoxville Ryan’s Row sits atop the bluff on the north end of the center city. Construction started in anticipation of the potential windfall of the World’s Fair in 1982. The developer...

Exquisite Modern Kitchen, Pembroke, Knoxville The Pembroke has housed residential units since 1990, making it one of the older residential developments downtown. Originally called the Sprankle Building, it had previously housed TVA in its heyday. Its...

Kitchen in the Holston Building, 531 Gay Street, Knoxville This will be the first of several posts about this year’s City People Tour of Homes. I made it to almost all of the homes offered on this...

Jodie Manross, Preservation Pub, Knoxville I’ve gotten pretty addicted to the Speakeasy at the Preservation Pub. Unlike the smoke-easy downstairs there is no, well, smoke. What you will find is a place to actually sit and...

This month brought another significant development to the downtown Knoxville Area when single-stream recycling service was spread around downtown. Unlike our more suburban neighbors, the idea in the city isn’t to have each household enjoy a...

It is amazing how quickly things continue to change downtown. In this post I’ll mention some changes that have happened and others that are underway. These have been mentioned in other places (particularly Josh Flory’s excellent...

Guitarist, Lululemon, First Friday October, Knoxville I’d intended to do only one business update, but I realized I have a bit more information than I realized. In this post I’ll share some of the pictures I...