A Dopo Pizzeria Set to Open Next Week
When last I checked in with Brian Strutz, he planned to open A Dopo pizzeria, his sourdough, wood fired pizza restaurant at 516 Williams Street in August. He missed the mark by a few weeks, as...
Business
Photographs and Updates from Gay Street Projects (And New Businesses)
Construction at the Farragut Hotel/Hyatt Place is continuing at a rapid pace internally. The building has been virtually gutted, as is obvious in the photograph below. Also shown in the photograph is the appearance of the...
Uncorked Enjoys a New Incarnation with Vinyl, Books and Chef T.J. Smith
Uncorked has enjoyed a long run on Market Square, seeing numerous changes both internally and on the square around it. Some of us have a hard time not referring to it as “Oodles,” which was part...
A Week With Entrepreneurs and a Chat With Travelista Teri (Teri Johnson)
A critical component of a healthy city in 2016, and maybe in any era would be a creative, entrepreneurial culture. This week hundreds of people discussed these qualities and how and if they apply to our...
Uncle Lem’s and South Landing CrossFit Coming Just Across the River from Downtown
Two new businesses were announced yesterday, adding to the surge in development along Sevier Avenue just over the Gay Street Bridge from downtown. With the growth in popularity of the nearby Urban Wilderness and the looming...
Knoxville, ETSY, Scripps Networks, Entrepreneur Center Spotlight Local Creatives with Innov865 Week
What the heck is all this “Maker” business? The word pops up everywhere and seems to refer to all manner of activities. Wikipedia defines “Maker culture,” as, “a contemporary culture or subculture . . ....
Two Businesses Close, New One Announced and Development Questions Answered
Continuing the theme of catching up on little developments across the city in recent weeks, let’s look at a number of other recent changes. I’ll also have a few tidbits that haven’t been reported elsewhere and...
Baseball, Fires and Development: More Updates
I’m going to take another shot out rounding out some of the dangling stories, but as I’ve begun listing them, I realize there are so many that I may not get through them in this article....
The Knoxville Community Darkroom Hopes to Come to Downtown
If there’s one thing that drives Lisa Flanary to distraction, it is probably the question that came to your mind when you read the headline: “Why do we need a darkroom? Nobody uses film, anymore.” She...
Chef Joseph Lenn Opens J.C. Holdway at 501 Union Avenue
It’s been a long time coming. It was just over a year ago I profiled chef Joseph Lenn, at that time the only James Beard Award winning chef in the state of Tennessee. After his stint...