Inside of Knoxville

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...

ETCDC Home Tour 2016 Highlights Outdoor Spaces

Knoxville Urban Guy·August 10, 2016

As I noted last week, the East Tennessee Community Design Center hosted a home tour which included a wide range of home styles, sizes and floor plans. The unifying theme of this year’s tour was outdoor...

A Downtown Knoxville Summer Summary?

Knoxville Urban Guy·August 3, 2016

Temperatures outside hover in the nineties and the humidity seems to hang somewhere between swamp and sauna levels. Summer certainly doesn’t seem to be near finished. The calendar states very clearly that we remain short of...

Regas Square Project Begins, Inside of Knoxville Takes to the Airwaves

Knoxville Urban Guy·July 29, 2016

It’s a day for announcements. First, Regas Square, which I first detailed here last October. Read the original article for much greater detail than I’ll give here. The news is that the project, announced nine months...

City Council Votes to Impose Historic Protection on Cal Johnson Building

Knoxville Urban Guy·July 6, 2016

City Council meetings sometimes provide a bit of drama and such was the case last night when it considered placing the Cal Johnson Building under historic zoning or H1 protection. Essentially, this means it cannot be...

City and Visit Knoxville Cover Garage Walls With Historic Photos

Knoxville Urban Guy·July 1, 2016

We’ve talked before, quite extensively, about the Walnut Street Garage. Built with one small portion of retail facing the street, it is a nine-story container for cars with very little to offer beyond that. The resultant...

French Market and Dover Development At Odds

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 8, 2016

I’d heard the relationship wasn’t going well, but Monday night when Allen Tate, co-owner of the French Market Creperies, took to Twitter and Facebook to air complaints directed at Dover Development, the controversy blew into the...

Pryor Brown Garage: From Potential Rubble to Vibrant Landmark

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 3, 2016

This is the way preservation stories are supposed to end in 2016. Gone should be the days when historic or simply solid and usable buildings are destroyed when they could have another life. But we know...

Church Street United Methodist Church Set to Build Addition to Historic Structure

Knoxville Urban Guy·June 1, 2016

It’s a beautiful structure sitting just to the west of Henley Street, across Cumberland from the Knoxville Convention Center. Church Street United Methodist Church, built in 1931, might be assumed to have always been in that...

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Development

Justin Paulk and Paulk and Co. Help Build a City

Flour Head Bakery (and Brewery) Coming to Central Street

ETCDC Home Tour 2016 Highlights Outdoor Spaces

A Downtown Knoxville Summer Summary?

Regas Square Project Begins, Inside of Knoxville Takes to the Airwaves

City Council Votes to Impose Historic Protection on Cal Johnson Building

City and Visit Knoxville Cover Garage Walls With Historic Photos

French Market and Dover Development At Odds

Pryor Brown Garage: From Potential Rubble to Vibrant Landmark

Church Street United Methodist Church Set to Build Addition to Historic Structure

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