Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (1/9-1/18/2022)
The rules are the same – 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...
COVID-19: 1/7/2022 Update
And so, we meet again. What seemed unimaginable in March 2020 when I wrote my first articles about COVID-19, seemed inevitable when I wrote my most recent article at the end of October: The virus continues...
Broadway Viaduct on Schedule
I was asked recently for an update on the Broadway viaduct, so I walked out and took a look. While TDOT isn’t the most communicative agency in town, it did generously leave the gate open for...
Economic Perspective and the City
The caption isn’t quite as enticing as Sex and the City, but for most of us, it’s as least as important, and probably more so. How is the economy? It depends on whom you ask and the...
Tennessee and Knox County COVID-19 Numbers By Month (Through 12/2021)
I know we are all done with COVID, but it isn’t done with us. It’s been a month since I’ve reported on the topic and, like many of you, I’d love to never hear about it...
New Development Comes to Happy Holler (1201 North Central Street)
A central location in the heart of Happy Holler is undergoing a transformation behind a large plywood barricade. At 1201 North Central Street, which was most recently Friends Antiques, Jeffrey Nash and the Courtland Group have...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (1/2-1/11/2022)
The rules are the same – 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...
Commentary on Commentary for a New Year
This is likely to be very similar to an article I wrote just a bit over four years ago. The issues then and now are very similar. That said, we’ve drifted into similar behaviors either because...
Downtown Knoxville Top Ten Articles for 2021
What a difference a year makes! Even though we continue to deal with an ongoing pandemic, in some respects, thanks to more information and vaccines, we got better at navigating it. A quick look at last...
Downtown Knoxville 2021 Year in Review
Another year is almost in the books and, as always, it seems to have flown by in blur. We started the year undergoing a massive surge in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, only to have that...