What happens next in the city? It’s the question that makes many of you tune in each morning to see the daily topic on this blog. Many of us feel like simple observers in the...
For many years we’ve only seen one-way traffic downtown and I’m not talking about the streets. We’ve torn down many buildings over the last decades and produced surface parking lots. We’ve not gone in the...
I’ve touched on the East Tennesee Community Design Center in previous articles, here and here, for example. It’s an organization I first encountered through an early Pehca Kucha presentation. The website best describes what they do, “ETCDC...
Those of us who are downtown all the time don’t give a thought to how to get about, but many visitors to the city, unless they ask a friendly citizen, are dependent on signs to direct...
There’s an allure to walking around inside an old building. Paying careful attention a person might see clues to its historic past, touch woodwork of a bygone era and sometimes even smell the past. It’s an...
One of the fun things about my job is that I get to hear all the good plans people have for our city. I get to hear what they are up to at the peak of...
Slowly, but very steadily, each of the remaining historic buildings on Gay Street are being renovated and updated. Work currently is underway in the old KUB Building, the Merchants Bank and Trust Building, the former J.C....
Let me start today’s post with some comments and clarifications after yesterday’s (mostly) good conversation. I tried in my article to give each of the different perspectives on what is a complicated economic issue. As Bill...
It’s massive, it’s changed our skyline and it will hold many, many cars. Over a thousand of them. So far, there’s not much to disagree with. It’s all true. That’s where opinions diverge. I’ve made it...
Just less than a year ago the old Farragut Hotel building was part of our local conversation. Developers from California-based Halo Hospitality Group had an option to purchase and said they intended to return the hotel...