Maple Hall Set to Open: Downtown Will Bowl Soon!
Over a year has passed since I first met with Greg Cox and Kevin Rice and talked about their bowling alley concept. They detailed plans and said they hoped to open by the end of the summer....
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Kaizen Is Open – Hours Soon to Expand
One of my absolute favorite patios is back in business with the opening of Kaizen at 416 Clinch Ave. Just over a month ago I wrote about the pending opening (go there if you missed an in depth...
Merchants of Beer Slated to Open This Fall in Old Diner
We’d all be doing pretty well if we had as many lives as the diner located at the corner of Summit Hill and Central. The property and the structure are owned by Hatcher-Hill and have been...
Be a Good Sport at The Central Collective
Today yoga teacher, blogger and vlogger Leslie Ellingburg, first featured on this blog just about a year ago, brings us up-to-date with Central Collective, the incredible space I’ve written about here (when they purchased the run-down building)...
Tennessee Valley Bikes: Serving a Basic Urban Need with Style
One of the conversational threads that runs through many of our discussions on this website is the need to for basic necessities for downtown to complement the culinary and entertainment options which have proliferated here. With...
French Market and Dover Development At Odds
I’d heard the relationship wasn’t going well, but Monday night when Allen Tate, co-owner of the French Market Creperies, took to Twitter and Facebook to air complaints directed at Dover Development, the controversy blew into the...
A Dopo Pizzeria To Open Downtown in August
The name, “A Dopo” Pizzeria, is Italian with a rough translation of “see you later,” holding with it the connotation that parting is only temporary. That’s the kind of vibe owner Brian Strutz wants to...
New Restaurant Coming to Downtown: Blue Slip Bistro
Blue Slip Winery continues to evolve in its home at the Southern Railway Station. In January, 2014, the move from its Old City location was announced and it held its grand opening in November 2014. Owner...
Courtyard and Residence Inn by Marriott May Come to Downtown
The vacant property located along State Street from Church over to Cumberland has been the subject of speculation for several years. Once the site of the Knoxville News Sentinel, the building that housed the newspaper was...
The Impeccable Pig Closes on Market Square
It’s been a while since I reported a closing on Market Square. Since a spate of closures around the end of 2014, I don’t think a single business on the square has called it quits. Coldstream...