Two Openings and a Closure
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...
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Sage Spa Connects New and Old Friends With a Unique Experience
Sage Sauna opened just a few weeks ago outside Trailhead Beer Market (1317 Island Home Avenue) offering a completely new concept for our area. A popular idea in Scandinavia and some parts of the northern U.S., Sage...
100 Block to South Waterfront: Why Lauderdale Design Group Made the Leap
Meaningful design shapes more than spaces — it shapes how people feel and interact with the world around them. It sparks curiosity, evokes nostalgia, creates a sense of pleasure and belonging. “We’re always looking for the...
Green Valley Dispensary to Open at 323 Union Avenue
Green Valley Dispensary, owned by Alicia Douglas, will soon open at 323 Union Avenue, in the space recently vacated by New2Knox. She hopes to have the shop operational by early December. Originally from South Georgia, Alicia...
2024 Film Fest Knox – It’s a Wrap!
(Article by Robert Farago) According to popular belief, success has many fathers/mothers/gender unspecified caregivers. True that. The second annual Film Fest Knox owes its success to a well-coordinated team of movie-mad mavens, not unlike To Kill...
Central Bottle Opens Today in Happy Holler
Like so many business openings or development projects, this one has taken longer than hoped, but D.L. Bergmeier, general manager and co-owner of the new Central Bottle, is happy to finally swing the doors open today...
Spellbound Vintage Opens at 716 S. Gay St.
Knoxville has another nifty vintage shop for lovers of all things cool, old and thrifted! You can find Abby Hamilton and Gracie Terry, the girls behind Spellbound Vintage and Art booths around town in pop-up markets...
Ice Cream Shoot-out on Gay Street
South Gay Street has three ice cream parlors within hailing distance of each other: Cruze Farm, Kilwins and The Phoenix Pharmacy and Fountain. The Eurythmics put it best: “sweet dreams are made of this.” When it...
Merchants of Beer to Close
The northwest corner of Summit Hill and Central Street has long offered a prominent example of the damage done to downtown in the 1970s and 1980s. Once filled with buildings, the half-acre space has offered a...
T. Ralph’s Burgers is Open Inside Kern’s Food Hall
Dustin Cochran is not new to the Knoxville food scene. He began making the famous Myrtle’s Bakehouse cookies and popping up in markets and eventually the Marble City Market Food Hall in 2021. He also...