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Downtown Development Updates, January 2025, Part Two

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 30, 2025
Today we’ll check in on three other ongoing projects that, generally, line up along Vine Avenue, though none of them are oriented toward that partial street. We’ll start at the bottom and climb the hill. First...

Downtown Development Updates, January 2025, Part One

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 29, 2025
It surprised me when I looked back and realized several months have passed since the last general update on the various development projects around town. We’ve got a number of projects scheduled to be completed this...

Homelands Exhibition Opens Today at the McClung Museum

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 27, 2025
Who determines the narrative? Who tells the story? Who records the history? And how do the answers to these questions impact our understanding of history, of others, of ourselves? As the staff at the McClung Museum...

Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (1/26 – 2/4/2025)

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 26, 2025
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...

Bethie Lou’s Fabulous Gift Store Moves Around the Corner

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 24, 2025
Last March, when Beth MacDonald and her partners, after seven years of ownership, sold the building at 110 South Central Street, she faced a decision with her business. Bethie Lou’s Fabulous Gift Store, which had opened...

Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (1/19 – 1/28/2025)

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 19, 2025
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...

Knoxville Becomes Tennessee’s First Charging Smart City (Plus Big Ears News, Japanese New Year!)

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 17, 2025
As the country slowly and inexorably moves toward electric vehicles, the City of Knoxville continues to keep pace or better. Yesterday the announcement came that Knoxville is the first city to join Charging Smart. Their website...

A Farewell to Nikki Giovanni and a Word on Words

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 15, 2025
I’ve been unable to shake thoughts of the loss of poet, activist, and life-force Nikki Giovanni who left this world just over a month ago. While many other events from the past two or three months...

Pedestrian Bridge Project Gets $24.7 Million Federal Grant

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 14, 2025
This is the first article I’ve written about the pedestrian bridge project. It may seem an odd omission to readers, so I’ll start this one with a bit of editorializing to explain myself, and then we’ll...

Snow in Downtown Knoxville, January 2025

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 13, 2025
For the second year in a row we’ve gotten a significant snow in January. I’ll take it. In the early 1980s when I moved to Knoxville, multiple snows a year seemed normal. In recent years we’ve...
Jenny Boyd Carousel Theatre Magnolia Grove Daytime Rendering, Courtesy of Sanders Pace

Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (1/12 – 1/21/2025)

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 12, 2025
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...

Two Closures and an Opening

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 8, 2025
As mentioned yesterday, the end of one year and the beginning of the next often ushers in change in the downtown business world. Closings are almost a given and, often, there are new businesses giving it...

Two Openings and a Closure

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 7, 2025
A couple truths: There are always closures and openings around the turn of each year. Also, I can’t keep up with them all. As the pace of everything associated with downtown has reached new speeds, I’m...

Pryor Brown Garage Finally Reaches the End

Knoxville Urban Guy·January 6, 2025
After years of neglect, conversation and argument, pleas and hopeful moments, along with darker turns, the Pryor Brown Garage will finally be demolished. The press release at the end of last week from the city, short,...
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