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Nature’s Crossing Closes at 7 Market Square

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 15, 2021

While the feared wave of closures may not have happened in downtown Knoxville, there have been loses. Each is different from the other with the reasons for closure sometimes overlapping, though unique to each business. In...

Knoxville Adventure Collective Invites You to Explore the Outdoors

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 14, 2021

It was almost six years ago that I introduced you to a business offering biking, paddle boarding, kayaking and more right out of downtown. Just about the time the pandemic was gaining steam, in early 2020,...

Proper Popcorn Coming to 29 Market Square

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 13, 2021

About eight months after Knoxville Chocolate Company closed its 29 Market Square location, a new business is working toward opening at the spot. Proper Popcorn, which has a shop on Kingston Pike (pictured in this article)...

Seoul Brothers: Korean Fusion Restaurant Coming to Downtown

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 9, 2021

Victoria Scott and Josh Coates are bringing a Korean Fusion restaurant to downtown. Opening a restaurant of his own has always been his dream but doing so with his sister wasn’t in the cards until very...

Ebony and Ivory Plans to Bring Communities Together Over Great Beer

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 8, 2021

A brewery and tap room is planned for 2300 North Central Street. Owners Chico Dupas and Mitchell Russell are perfecting recipes and making big plans and construction will soon get underway at the location with Sanders...

A Roundup of Local Independent Media

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 7, 2021

The media landscape has, as we all know, drastically shifted in recent years, both locally and globally. Twenty-five years ago it would have been difficult to imagine a significant city without a daily paper, but that...

Two Bikes Officially Opens Saturday

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 2, 2021

Two Bikes, the business born out of the demise of Dream Bikes, will open Saturday at 118 Central Street. Executive Director, Mitchell Connell and Operations Manager Matt Zingg forged forward with a vision for their own...

Real Good Kitchen Supports Local Food Entrepreneurs

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 1, 2021

Real Good Kitchen, owned and operated by Bailey Foster is a “full-service, shared commercial kitchen facility,” located at 2004 Magnolia Avenue. Ms. Foster said she had worked on the idea for about four years. She is...

Bat N Rouge is Purchased, Moves, and Expands

Knoxville Urban Guy·March 31, 2021

If there has been a theme to the business news over the last year in the downtown area, it has been one of acquisitions and expansions. Bat N Rouge, opened by Haley Hancock in 2015 in...

The Brewing and Distilling Center Expands

Knoxville Urban Guy·March 22, 2021

It’s a story we’ve seen repeated several times before as we’ve looked at business responses to the pandemic: Many businesses have taken the opportunity to make bold moves to prepare for an exciting post-pandemic Knoxville. I...

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Nature’s Crossing Closes at 7 Market Square

Knoxville Adventure Collective Invites You to Explore the Outdoors

Proper Popcorn Coming to 29 Market Square

Seoul Brothers: Korean Fusion Restaurant Coming to Downtown

Ebony and Ivory Plans to Bring Communities Together Over Great Beer

A Roundup of Local Independent Media

Two Bikes Officially Opens Saturday

Real Good Kitchen Supports Local Food Entrepreneurs

Bat N Rouge is Purchased, Moves, and Expands

The Brewing and Distilling Center Expands

COVID-19: 4/16/2021 Update (International, National, State, and Local)

Firefly Lights Add to Magical Market Square

Nature’s Crossing Closes at 7 Market Square

Knoxville Adventure Collective Invites You to Explore the Outdoors

Proper Popcorn Coming to 29 Market Square