Inside of Knoxville

Downtown Construction Updates: Lone Tree Pass

Knoxville Urban Guy·July 22, 2024

Several months have passed since I’ve updated photos from the range of large projects happening in and around downtown. Each of the three major projects are scheduled for completion in 2025. They run the gamut from...

Base Co-Working Space to Open on Broadway

Knoxville Urban Guy·July 8, 2024

Business partners and husband/wife team Juliana Terra and Zhenya Fomin, co-owners of Urbano Construction and Properties Group, purchased a partially utilized building at 828 North Broadway in 2022, re-imagining both the interior and exterior. The building...

The Davy Nears Opening, Brings Major Expansion of Homes on the South Waterfront

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 25, 2024

(Today’s article is by new contributing writer K.W. (Keith) Leonard. Leonard, an English teacher with Knox County Schools, has called Knoxville home for more than thirty-five years, most of which he’s spent in South Knoxville.) Having...

Tower Design Approved for Hill and Locust

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 21, 2024

In its third appearance before the Design Review Board, the Hill and Locust project backed by Woodfield Development gained approval on an 8 to 0 vote. The project, controversial to many, particularly residents living behind its...

Smokies Multiuse Stadium Tour Update June 2024

Heather Ryerson·June 13, 2024

Urban Guy has been keeping up with the progress at the future home of Smokies baseball/multiuse stadium and residential development. I had the chance to tour last week and get behind the scenes. You can see...

A Tale of Two Buildings: Two Development Projects Return to Design Review Board

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 16, 2024

A month ago, I reported on two major downtown development projects before the Design Review Board. Decisions on each were postponed with directions to the developers to make improvements on the design of the respective buildings....

JFG Sign(s)

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 14, 2024

Just a bit over seven months ago the JFG sign on the south waterfront went missing. In the brief media storm, we learned that the property on which it formerly sat (Kerbella Temple property) had been...

Updated Stadium Photographs

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 3, 2024

All signs indicate that the announced completion of the stadium in time for next year’s baseball season is right on track. The construction site changes so quickly it can be startling. And sometimes unexpected. One of...

Axle Logistics Continues Explosive Growth (and Construction)

Knoxville Urban Guy·May 3, 2024

The first time I wrote about Axle Logistics, in September 2019 (you’ll find the full back-story there), owners and co-founders Drew Johnson and Jon Clay were rightfully proud of the growth their company had experienced and...

Building at 125 East Jackson Avenue Demolished

Knoxville Urban Guy·April 24, 2024

The buildings which once housed NV, The Bowery, Blue Cats and other bars in the 1990s and early 2000s have been torn down. Further back the buildings or part of them had served as a strip...

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Development

Downtown Construction Updates: Lone Tree Pass

Base Co-Working Space to Open on Broadway

The Davy Nears Opening, Brings Major Expansion of Homes on the South Waterfront

Tower Design Approved for Hill and Locust

Smokies Multiuse Stadium Tour Update June 2024

A Tale of Two Buildings: Two Development Projects Return to Design Review Board

JFG Sign(s)

Updated Stadium Photographs

Axle Logistics Continues Explosive Growth (and Construction)

Building at 125 East Jackson Avenue Demolished

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