A Business Re-locates, Plus a Couple of Updates
I dropped in on my friend Don DeVore who, with his wife, Lauren, owns Broadway Market. About a month ago, the business disappeared from it’s location and it threw more than a few people at first...
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Ryan-Ashley Anderson Spreading the Love with Smart and Becker
Ryan-Ashley Anderson has followed her heart into her own business and planted her flag out McCalla where east Knoxville meets downtown in the Electric Company Lofts Building at 1154 McCalla. When I first wrote about Electric...
Marcus Hall Discusses His Rise, Fall and Return to Marc Nelson Denim
It’s been an emotional journey for Marcus Hall. After a run as the poster-boy for Knoxville success, filled with charm, good looks and a seemingly thriving business, all while being hailed for bringing denim manufacturing back...
Making a City More Beautiful, One Piece of Wood at a Time
You may have seen his work around town or you may have attended an event at Ironwood Studios at 119 Jennings (Just off Central), the 17,500 square foot space occupied by his woodworking studio and Preston...
South Coast Pizza Opens Tomorrow at 1103 Sevier Avenue
It took a little longer than expected to open South Coast Pizza – there were hiccups with power supplies and other things – but Chris Morton circled the date and said it had to happen. And...
Old City Athletic Club to Open Downtown
When the Daniel opened in January two years ago, owners Jon Clark and Ron Turner expressed an interest in filling the retail portion of the building with businesses which would enhance the building and the neighborhood,...
Matt Robbs Biscuits and Brew to Open Downtown
Matt Robbins is well known around downtown – particularly in the Old City – not only for serving a good cup of coffee, but for the connection people feel with him. To hear him tell it,...
Knoxville High Independent Living Opens Its Doors
It’s been a long road, one that Rick Dover acknowledges has sometimes been frustrating, but he also says it’s what he enjoys most – making the improbable happen despite the obstacles. I first wrote about Knoxville...
Nest Closes: What Is Wrong With Retail on the 100 Block of Gay Street?
I started this website in June of 2010. In July I wrote my first article about the block. Then Mayor Haslam dedicated the re-opened, refurbished block which had undergone a dramatic re-working which had taken eighteen...
A Downtown Business Moves to Fountain City
It’s been a bit of a moving target over the years, for various reasons. I first wrote about it in February 2013 when a second location for the west Knoxville business opened a half mile out...