Inside of Knoxville

How would you spend $.75 million and change annually to help downtown?

Knoxville Urban Guy·July 18, 2019

Start naming projects to help an entire downtown and the money can slip away pretty quickly. Some issues or dreams can’t be addressed with that small amount of money. As massive as it would seem to...

The State of Recode Knoxville

Knoxville Urban Guy·July 16, 2019

It’s been almost two years since I first wrote about Recode Knoxville and I was pretty late to the party. It was February 2017 that the effort officially got underway with with the outside consultants who...

An Update and Look Inside the Downtown Embassy Suites

Knoxville Urban Guy·July 5, 2019

It was October 2017 when Alpesh Patel announced plans for his Kana Hotel Group to transform the office building at 505 South Gay Street to an Embassy Suites Hotel. At the time, the estimated completion date...

Fort Kid to be Spared Thanks to Donations

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 27, 2019

It’s been a part of our family off and on since it was built in the early 1990s. I have vague memories of work days with Urban Daughter tagging along with a friend. Maybe the mind...

Jackson Avenue Ramp Work Is Finally Here – Really

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 20, 2019

The target has been moving for years. Close followers of everything downtown will likely believe it when they see it. Two viaducts have been slated for replacement for years. I reported in 2016 that the Broadway...

Tyson Court Apartments Now Pre-Leasing

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 13, 2019

It’s been five years since I started noticing this cool little area settled somewhere between downtown proper and north Knoxville. I wrote about an event at Ironwood studios in 2014 and about a cool building and...

Regas Square Condominiums Has Its First Residents: Symphony Showcases Units

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 12, 2019

We’re just a few months shy of four years passed since the first announcement was made that Regas Square Condominiums and retail spaces would be developed. It’s been a long process and Joe Petre, one of...

Downtown Knoxville Alliance Poised to Usher the City into a New Era

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 7, 2019

When I moved into downtown Knoxville in 2009 and stumbled into the Central Business Improvement District, now re-branded as the Downtown Knoxville Alliance, it was already sixteen years old. Formed in 1993 during some of downtown’s...

New Ownership Brings New Plans and New Life to the Kerns Bakery Site

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 31, 2019

For a place with so much promise, it’s been a long and twisted journey. A series of owners has produced evolving plans that stalled and never came to fruition. Potential and promise simply never translated into...

Rendering of the Old City Performing Arts Center (Courtesy Smee and Busby)

Building Purchased for Old City Performing Arts Center

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 28, 2019

Just over a year ago, River and Rail Theatre Company announced plans to open the Old City Performing Arts Center. It was an ambitious plan to convert the old Cor-Tenn building at 111 Central Street into...

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Development

How would you spend $.75 million and change annually to help downtown?

The State of Recode Knoxville

An Update and Look Inside the Downtown Embassy Suites

Fort Kid to be Spared Thanks to Donations

Jackson Avenue Ramp Work Is Finally Here – Really

Tyson Court Apartments Now Pre-Leasing

Regas Square Condominiums Has Its First Residents: Symphony Showcases Units

Downtown Knoxville Alliance Poised to Usher the City into a New Era

New Ownership Brings New Plans and New Life to the Kerns Bakery Site

Building Purchased for Old City Performing Arts Center

Look What’s Returning! (More Than You Might Realize)

Whist Court Getting a Modern Makeover Adding to Development on Magnolia

One Downtown Business Closes and Another is Sold

Mood Ring Vintage Opens Today at 906 Sevier Avenue

Fly By Night Bringing the 70s to South Knoxville