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Business Comings and Goings: How Has Downtown Fared During the Pandemic?

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 22, 2021

It’s easy to get a distorted view of a city’s relative business gains and losses when we simply digest the news that we happen to encounter. For that reason, I’ve been interested recently in looking back...

Wide Lens Celebrates 10 Years and Introduces 502 Jingle House

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 20, 2021

I noticed a mention of 502 Jingle House on Facebook, a business I’d never heard of, and realized the address was on my block of Gay Street. Curious, I soon realized it was a new...

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...

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Business Comings and Goings: How Has Downtown Fared During the Pandemic?

Wide Lens Celebrates 10 Years and Introduces 502 Jingle House

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

Look What’s Returning! (More Than You Might Realize)

Whist Court Getting a Modern Makeover Adding to Development on Magnolia

One Downtown Business Closes and Another is Sold

Mood Ring Vintage Opens Today at 906 Sevier Avenue

Fly By Night Bringing the 70s to South Knoxville