Want to Buy a Building?
Last week the city and the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center hosted an open house for a property at 1200 McCalla Avenue. In the heart of the Magnolia Warehouse District. The property will soon be made available as...
Development
New Home Construction, “The Overlook” Announced for Downtown
I’ve written before about a quiet section of town along Hill Avenue, just to the east of Henley on the north side of the bridge. It’s seen some change in recent years – and months –...
Holler Performing Arts Center Set to Open in June
It’s been an evolutionary process since Modern Studio opened in January 2017 at 109 W. Anderson Avenue (a half block from the primary intersection in Happy Holler). At the time, the business featured two owners, Burke...
What is Good Growth? What is Good Development?
Please don’t expect that either I completely understand the answers to those questions or that I can condense the information to a meme-sized statement. Urban growth and development are complicated topics. Sometimes it’s easier to point...
Did You Know That? News You Might Have Missed
Large amounts of information pass my way. Sometimes it’s interesting, but not enough for a proper article. Other times it is reported in other media before I see it and so, the urgency isn’t there to...
Construction Update: The Mews II
About eight months have passed since I announced the plans for the Mews II, the second set of condominiums Jeffrey Nash is constructing on Magnolia Avenue. The first, The Mews, on the opposite side of Ogden...
Evolving Supreme Court Site Development Plans
Rick Dover, DIA Architects, J Davis Architects and Bristol Development Group recently presented their current vision for the Supreme Court Site on the downtown block bounded by Henley, Church, Locust and Cumberland to City Council in...
Old City Performing Arts Center Announced
It’s funny how things eventually converge. I first mentioned the Cor-Tenn Company in an article about businesses we tend to overlook. They eventually moved from their location at 111 State Street and the building has sat empty...
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...
Nineteen Story Apartment Building Planned for North Waterfront
Word has been circulating for quite a while that a major development was planned for the north waterfront, just to the east (by twenty feet) of the Henley Bridge. I first mentioned the rumors and named...