Plans Announced for a Major Building on Gay Street
Three weeks ago I wrote about the Conley Building at 505 – 507 South Gay Street. After a range of uses over the years, serving mostly as banks and office space, the building had become entangled...
Development
A Pie Factory is Saved on Central – And Big Plans Are Intimated
Less than a month ago I wrote about a building at 2209 North Central and, perhaps, the beginning of residents and businesses along Central Street taking small steps to organize and preserve the best elements along...
Ijams Expanded with the Help of Grayson Subaru: Is the Urban Wilderness Knoxville’s Central Park?
In a nice turn, Ijams Nature Center and, as a result, Knoxville’s Urban Wilderness have grown. Grayson Subaru donated $60,000 toward a project that began with the purchase of 13.4 acres adjacent to Mead’s Quary for...
Legacy Housing Foundation: Improving Lives and Having Fun
The Legacy Housing Foundation was recently formed in Knoxville. Absent a big announcement, the focus, from the beginning has been to, “provide vital services and programs that make affordable housing communities better places to live.” It’s...
The Telephone Building – The Second of Two Articles on the Downtown AT&T Building
(Ed: Today is the second of a two part series by Oren Yarbrough, architectural intern at DIA.) In the last article, I described the varied and interesting history of the collection of buildings that today makes...
The Telephone Building: The First of a Two Part Series on the Downtown AT&T Building
Today we welcome guest columnist Oren Yarbrough. You’ve seen his comments here. He’s an intern architect with DIA on Gay Street and he’s got a particular interest in what I’ve called the ugliest building in the...
Clayton Luxury Tiny Home: Answer for Urban Infill? (Plus a bonus fun read linked at the end)
I’ve been thinking about tiny homes for a while. Not that I’m quite ready to move into one. Most people put the line between a tiny house and a “small” house at around 400 square feet....
Details of New Ground-Up Condominium and Commercial Development Announced
The Courtland Group, headed by Jeffrey Nash, has established an excellent track record with numerous redevelopments of older buildings. Nash began his career reclaiming and redeveloping warehouses and factories in east London, but moved to Knoxville...
Lengthy Litigation Results in New Ownership and Possibilities for Prominent Downtown Building
Like me, you may have wondered what was happening in a building positioned on perhaps the most prominent corner in the city: Union and Gay. The Conley Building has seemed underutilized for years even as properties...
The House That Beer Built
Knoxville’s beer community continues to put the community into the beer in new and different ways. Now they’ve paired with Habitat for Humanity to build two homes for Knoxville families. Beer and building, as it turns...