Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (1/8 – 1/17/2023)
If you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me (Alan Sims – you’ll have to friend me) and it will be included. I need enough lead time that the list can be...
Baseball Update: An Interview with Doug Kirchhofer, CEO Boyd Sports
It’s been about nine months since I last mentioned baseball in this space. It’s not that the express stopped rolling, but when I wrote last April that the Smokies would not likely play their first game...
Red Panda Grocery Opens in the Old City
Red Panda Grocery opened over the holidays serving up groceries for all your needs in the Old City. A downtown grocery store has long been the white whale of downtown retail. Downtown residents longed for one...
A Couple of (Near) Downtown Closures Announced Late in the Year
I always try to mention closures as well as openings in the downtown area. We’ve had a couple lately, including one that was covered well by other local media and another that happened during the holidays...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (1/1 – 1/10/2023)
If you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me (Alan Sims – you’ll have to friend me) and it will be included. I need enough lead time that the list can be...
New Years Eve Celebration Moves to the Sunsphere (plus a bonus link)
For the second consecutive year, the City of Knoxville will host its long-running ball drop from the World’s Fair Park at the Sunsphere tomorrow night. Lowe’s is the primary sponsor for the event centered on the...
Top Ten Downtown Articles for 2022
In the end, for all the other diversions, readers of this website want to read about business and development. Of the top twenty-five most read articles this year, fifteen were about businesses, and eight were about...
Downtown Knoxville Year in Review: 2022
I always enjoy the opportunity to look back at the year’s biggest stories. While I’m in the thick of it, I move from one deadline to the next and barely have time to think about the...
PhysioLab on Sevier continues to provide outstanding service, now with 3 locations
(Today’s article is by guest writer Heather Ryerson) Athletes know that proper care for their injuries is vital to a full recovery and reducing the risk of reinjury. They also know that all providers are not...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (12/25 – 1/3/2023)
Opening for Transcending Traditions, Lilienthal Gallery, 23 Emory Place, Knoxville, December 2022If you want your event included, please make a Facebook event, invite me (Alan Sims – you’ll have to friend me) and it will be...