Inside of Knoxville

Photographs and Updates from Gay Street Projects (And New Businesses)

Knoxville Urban Guy·September 27, 2016

Construction at the Farragut Hotel/Hyatt Place is continuing at a rapid pace internally. The building has been virtually gutted, as is obvious in the photograph below. Also shown in the photograph is the appearance of the...

Faris Eid: Lifting Up a City

Knoxville Urban Guy·September 21, 2016

When it gathers for its annual gala on October 20, the East Tennessee Community Design Center will honor a person who has designed a large percentage of the best renovations and restorations in our city. He’s...

Two Businesses Close, New One Announced and Development Questions Answered

Knoxville Urban Guy·September 15, 2016

Continuing the theme of catching up on little developments across the city in recent weeks, let’s look at a number of other recent changes. I’ll also have a few tidbits that haven’t been reported elsewhere and...

Baseball, Fires and Development: More Updates

Knoxville Urban Guy·September 14, 2016

I’m going to take another shot out rounding out some of the dangling stories, but as I’ve begun listing them, I realize there are so many that I may not get through them in this article....

Lots of Little Downtown Updates

Knoxville Urban Guy·September 13, 2016

Sometimes it just seems time to catch up and to catch our collective breath. The truth is so many thing are happening so fast in downtown Knoxville that they can’t all have a devoted article. As...

The Historic Tennessee Theatre Relights Its Marquee and Signature Blade Sign

Knoxville Urban Guy·September 1, 2016

The long story of the Tennessee Theatre continues and, happily, most of the recent chapters have been happy ones. Originally built as a movie palace, it opened its doors on October 1, 1928 with a showing...

Little Urban Connections

Knoxville Urban Guy·August 24, 2016

I hope you traveled to exotic and wondrous destinations this summer. Me? Not so much. I visited cities I often visit during the course of the summer: Chattanooga, Birmingham, Selma, Mobile and New Orleans. Even when...

Daylight Building Offers Downtown Homes For Sale

Knoxville Urban Guy·August 19, 2016

Five years after accepting its first residents, Dewhirst Properties is offering what have been leased apartments inside the Daylight Building, located on the 500 block of Union Avenue, for sale as condos. The historic tax credits...

Justin Paulk and Paulk and Co. Help Build a City

Knoxville Urban Guy·August 16, 2016

The first several times I met Justin, it was in the context of cool, funky parties at Paulk and Company on William’s Street. Artists, music and generally fun people enjoyed the eclectic oddities assembled inside and...

Flour Head Bakery (and Brewery) Coming to Central Street

Knoxville Urban Guy·August 12, 2016

Tomato Head, co-owned by Mahasti Vafaie and Scott Partin, has long been a staple of downtown. Eventually, the couple opened another Tomato Head restaurant in Maryville, then moved it to west Knoxville. Subsequently, the kitchen at...

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Development

Photographs and Updates from Gay Street Projects (And New Businesses)

Faris Eid: Lifting Up a City

Two Businesses Close, New One Announced and Development Questions Answered

Baseball, Fires and Development: More Updates

Lots of Little Downtown Updates

The Historic Tennessee Theatre Relights Its Marquee and Signature Blade Sign

Little Urban Connections

Daylight Building Offers Downtown Homes For Sale

Justin Paulk and Paulk and Co. Help Build a City

Flour Head Bakery (and Brewery) Coming to Central Street

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