Rebel Kitchen Coming to the Old City!
A new restaurant, Rebel Kitchen, is coming to the Old City as an expansion of the Old City Wine Bar. General Manager Matt Burke said that since accepting the adjacent space last year, the group has...
Business
Local Inventor Brett Burdick Finds Success With a Hedgehog Featherboard (Say What?)
There’s an old question: How does a writer (or substitute your profession) make a million dollars? Answer: Well, you start with two million . . . The joke could certainly apply to inventors who may sink...
Embassy Suite Details – And Three Favorite Local Businesses to Join Them at the Location
It’s been nearly three months since the announcement that the Conley Building at 505 – 507 Gay Street would become an Embassy Suites. The long under-utilized building sits at arguably the most prominent intersection in the...
Covenant Health Offers Both Walk-In and Primary Care Downtown
It’s been almost two years since Covenant Health opened its Convenient Care Clinic in the Phoenix Building (behind the Phoenix Pharmacy and Fountain at 418 South Gay). During that time, the supervising physician, Dr. Jeff McMichael,...
Pretentious Beer Company Now Has Its Own . . .
Mmm, what would it be that a beer company might want of its very own? As it turns out, owner Matthew Cummings laid it out for me the first time we talked: First there was glass...
A Market Square Business Closes to End the Year
For a spot that sits at the heart of who we are as a city, a place that we consider the center of whatever good has happened to Knoxville in recent years, Market Square showed a...
A New Business – South Coast Pizza – Announced for the South Side
Sevier Avenue has had no shortage of business expansion in recent years. Paralleling the river, it’s a perfect corridor for expansion of the boom from downtown – or taken another way, simply a logical place for...
Knoxville Chocolate Company Opens at 29 Market Square!
Right on schedule, as I first reported in September, Knoxville Chocolate Company has opened on Market Square, moving from its long-term home in the Candy Factory. While they technically opened in the last weekend of 2017,...
Pretentious Glass Company Shatters Sales Records
It was three years ago this month that Matthew Cummings brought his Pretentious Glass Company to the Old City at 133 South Central Street. He moved the business here from Louisville, Kentucky, and the glass studio...
Central Depot Opens at Guess Which Corner?
For those of you playing along at home, the correct answer would be at the corner of Central and Depot. Trick question. Knoxville’s newest addition to both bars and businesses moving to the north near the...